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title: This day thou com’st invader of my land Murthemné, bulwark broad of… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: This day thou com’st invader of my land Murthemné, bulwark broad of Uladh’s realm; Thou com’st to burn my cities, spoil my flocks-- A change there is, Ferdīa!’ Who acts: Thou, change. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 120

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This day thou com’st invader of my land Murthemné, bulwark broad of Uladh’s realm; Thou com’st to burn my cities, spoil my flocks-- A change there is, Ferdīa!’

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**Who acts:** Thou, change · **What happens:** com'st, burn, spoil, be · **To what, where:** cities, flocks, com’st invader

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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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, change), 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:pg78491:13:122
# text = This day thou com’st invader of my land Murthemné, bulwark broad of Uladh’s realm; Thou com’st to burn my cities, spoil my flocks-- A change there is, Ferdīa!’
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	com’st	com'	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	invader	invader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	Murthemné	Murthemné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	bulwark	bulwark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	broad	broad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
19	com’st	com'st	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	spoil	spoil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **com'st** |  | Thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | to-infinitive |  | my cities |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 3 | **spoil** | infinitive |  | my flocks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | present | a change *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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