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title: Be strong! a trial waits thee heavier yet-- No man is friend of mine… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be strong! a trial waits thee heavier yet-- No man is friend of mine till trial-proved.’ Who acts: strong trial, man. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12, 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 12, sentence 104

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Be strong! a trial waits thee heavier yet-- No man is friend of mine till trial-proved.’

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**Who acts:** strong trial, man · **What happens:** be, wait, prove · **To what, where:** thee, friend

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strong trial, man), 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:pg78491:12:106
# text = Be strong! a trial waits thee heavier yet-- No man is friend of mine till trial-proved.’
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	waits	wait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obj	_	_
8	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	_
9	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	advcl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	proved	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | present | a strong trial | thee |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | no man | friend |  |  |  | of mine | tree rules |
| 4 | **prove** | participle | no man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | trial *compound* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=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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