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title: Against thee, day by day, Be ours to send one champion--one alone:--… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Against thee, day by day, Be ours to send one champion--one alone:-- While lasts that strife forbear the host beside!”’ Who acts: thee, strife. 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 pr
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 49

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Against thee, day by day, Be ours to send one champion--one alone:-- While lasts that strife forbear the host beside!”’

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**Who acts:** thee, strife · **What happens:** be, send, last, forbear · **To what, where:** ours, one champion, host

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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 (thee, strife), 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:pg78491:12:51
# text = Against thee, day by day, Be ours to send one champion--one alone:-- While lasts that strife forbear the host beside!”’
1	Against	against	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	champion	champion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
16	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	forbear	forbear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive | thee  day by day | ours |  |  |  | one *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | to-infinitive |  | one champion |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent champion=Theme |
| 3 | **last** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **forbear** | present | strife | the host |  |  |  |  | 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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