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title: These merits three were yours: I beckoned to you: Dowered you with i… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: These merits three were yours: I beckoned to you: Dowered you with ingots thicker than your wrist; Made you a king, or kingling. Who acts: three, merits. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 24

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These merits three were yours: I beckoned to you: Dowered you with ingots thicker than your wrist; Made you a king, or kingling.

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**Who acts:** three, merits · **What happens:** be, beckon, dower · **To what, where:** yours, king, you

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This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three, merits), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:11:26
# text = These merits three were yours: I beckoned to you: Dowered you with ingots thicker than your wrist; Made you a king, or kingling.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	merits	merit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	beckoned	beckon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Dowered	dower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ingots	ingot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	thicker	thick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wrist	wrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Made	Made	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	kingling	kingling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | three | yours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **beckon** | past | this merits | a king | you |  |  | I *nsubj*; kingling *parataxis* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Theme to you=Recipient |
| 3 | **dower** | participle | this merits *not said here* | you |  |  |  | with ingots | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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