--- title: Bid her know Our Donn and we revere Fionbannah’s choice, Her Bull, t… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Bid her know Our Donn and we revere Fionbannah’s choice, Her Bull, that leaped her gate and swam her flood, Spurning the female rule!’ Who acts: Queen, we, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, we, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:11:54 # text = Bid her know Our Donn and we revere Fionbannah’s choice, Her Bull, that leaped her gate and swam her flood, Spurning the female rule!’ 1 Bid bid VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 Our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 Donn Donn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 revere revere VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 9 Fionbannah Fionbannah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’s 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 Bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 leaped leap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 swam swim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 flood flood NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 Spurning spurn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bid** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | infinitive | Queen | Our Donn | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer donn=Stimulus | | 3 | **revere** | present | we | Fionbannah's choice and Queen's Bull | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer choice=Stimulus | | 4 | **leap** | past | that | Queen's gate | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Trajectory | | 5 | **swim** | past | that *not said here* | Queen's flood | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flood=Trajectory | | 6 | **spurn** | gerund | that *not said here* | the female rule | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **flood** | | Queen | | | | | | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/53/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/)