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title: Sleep a three days’ sleep Whilst I thy semblance bearing meet thy fo… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sleep a three days’ sleep Whilst I thy semblance bearing meet thy foes.’ Who acts: I, three days. 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 114

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Sleep a three days’ sleep Whilst I thy semblance bearing meet thy foes.’

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**Who acts:** I, three days · **What happens:** meet, sleep · **To what, where:** foes, Sleep sleep

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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, three days), 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:pg78491:12:116
# text = Sleep a three days’ sleep Whilst I thy semblance bearing meet thy foes.’
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	Whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	semblance	semblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bearing	bearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present | I | thy foes |  |  |  | thy semblance bearing *nsubj* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **sleep** |  | a three days |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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