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title: Thus that warrior spake: ‘My child, an ancestor of thine I come, Gre… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus that warrior spake: ‘My child, an ancestor of thine I come, Great Ethland’s son, in virtuous battle slain. Who acts: I. 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 c
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 111

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Thus that warrior spake: ‘My child, an ancestor of thine I come, Great Ethland’s son, in virtuous battle slain.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** warrior spake

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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 (I), 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:pg78491:12:113
# text = Thus that warrior spake: ‘My child, an ancestor of thine I come, Great Ethland’s son, in virtuous battle slain.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	warrior	warrior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ancestor	ancestor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
18	Ethland	Ethland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	virtuous	virtuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | I |  |  |  |  | thine *nmod:poss* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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