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title: My hoards are higher heaped than yours; my meads More deep, more ric… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: My hoards are higher heaped than yours; my meads More deep, more rich!’ Who acts: hoards, My. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 30

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My hoards are higher heaped than yours; my meads More deep, more rich!’

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**Who acts:** hoards, My · **What happens:** be, heap, hoard

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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 (hoards, My), 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:pg78491:11:32
# text = My hoards are higher heaped than yours; my meads More deep, more rich!’
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hoards	hoard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	heaped	heap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	meads	mead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	More	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | My hoards |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **heap** | participle | My hoards *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than yours | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** |  | My hoards *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hoard** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom hoard «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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