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title: Shrewd of eye Men answered; “Merchant; see thy wares be sound! — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Shrewd of eye Men answered; “Merchant; see thy wares be sound! Who acts: Shrewd, wares. 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 130

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Shrewd of eye Men answered; “Merchant; see thy wares be sound!

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**Who acts:** Shrewd, wares · **What happens:** answer, see, be · **To what, where:** Merchant, sound · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Shrewd, wares), 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:pg78491:12:132
# text = Shrewd of eye Men answered; “Merchant; see thy wares be sound!
1	Shrewd	Shrewd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wares	ware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: express* | past | Shrewd of eye Men | Merchant |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent merchant=Eventuality |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | Shrewd of eye Men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | thy wares | sound |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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