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title: Twas thine to yoke my steeds; Arm me for fight. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Twas thine to yoke my steeds; Arm me for fight. Who acts: Twas. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13, 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 13, sentence 122

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Twas thine to yoke my steeds; Arm me for fight.

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**Who acts:** Twas · **What happens:** yoke · **To what, where:** steeds

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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 (Twas), 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:pg78491:13:124
# text = Twas thine to yoke my steeds; Arm me for fight.
1	Twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	yoke	yoke	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Arm	Arm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **yoke** | to-infinitive | Twas | my steeds |  |  |  | for fight; Arm  me *obl*; thine *nmod:poss* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent steed=Destination |

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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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