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title: Beware that youth Slender as maid, whose stature in the fight Rises… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Beware that youth Slender as maid, whose stature in the fight Rises gigantic. Who acts: you. 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 86

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Beware that youth Slender as maid, whose stature in the fight Rises gigantic.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** beware, rise · **To what, where:** youth, fight

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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 (you), 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:pg78491:11:88
# text = Beware that youth Slender as maid, whose stature in the fight Rises gigantic.
1	Beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	Slender	Slender	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
13	Rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
14	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beware** | imperative | you *not said here* | that youth |  |  |  | as maid and maid and maid's stature's stature; Slender *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | present |  |  |  | the fight |  | gigantic *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fight=Location |

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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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