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title: Then Meave resolved, Though all my host should perish to a man This… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Meave resolved, Though all my host should perish to a man This foot shall tread no more my native plains Save with that Bull in charge! Who acts: Meave, host, foot, native plains. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, par
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 65

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Then Meave resolved, Though all my host should perish to a man This foot shall tread no more my native plains Save with that Bull in charge!

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**Who acts:** Meave, host, foot, native plains · **What happens:** resolve, perish, tread, save · **To what, where:** more

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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 (Meave, host, foot, native plains), 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:pg78491:12:67
# text = Then Meave resolved, Though all my host should perish to a man This foot shall tread no more my native plains Save with that Bull in charge!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	tread	tread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	no	no	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	obj	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	Save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | past | Meave |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **perish** | should | my host |  |  |  |  | to a man | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **tread** | shall | this foot | more |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location more=Theme |
| 4 | **save** | present | my native plains |  |  |  |  | with that Bull in charge | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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