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title: To seal that pact he sought the hostile camp, And shared the banquet. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: To seal that pact he sought the hostile camp, And shared the banquet. Who acts: strength. 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 51

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To seal that pact he sought the hostile camp, And shared the banquet.

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**Who acts:** strength · **What happens:** seal, seek, share · **To what, where:** pact, hostile camp, banquet

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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 (strength), 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:pg78491:12:53
# text = To seal that pact he sought the hostile camp, And shared the banquet.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	seal	seal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	pact	pact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	hostile	hostile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	shared	share	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seal** | to-infinitive | strength *not said here* | that pact |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pact=Patient |
| 2 | **seek** | past | strength | the hostile camp |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Theme |
| 3 | **share** | past | strength *not said here* | the banquet |  |  |  |  | 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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