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title: Privilege He hath that neither witch nor demon tempt That precinct w… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Privilege He hath that neither witch nor demon tempt That precinct where he harbours.’ Who acts: Privilege, witch. 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 38

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Privilege He hath that neither witch nor demon tempt That precinct where he harbours.’

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**Who acts:** Privilege, witch · **What happens:** have, tempt, harbour · **To what, where:** precinct

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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 (Privilege, witch), 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:pg78491:11:40
# text = Privilege He hath that neither witch nor demon tempt That precinct where he harbours.’
1	Privilege	privilege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	8	cc	_	_
8	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	tempt	tempt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	precinct	precinct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	harbours	harbour	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Privilege |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tempt** | present | neither witch nor demon | that precinct |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precinct=Recipient |
| 3 | **harbour** | present | Privilege |  |  |  |  |  | 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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