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title: Thus with words Or mild, or stern in hope to save not slay, Those fr… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus with words Or mild, or stern in hope to save not slay, Those friends contended. Who acts: friends. 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 128

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Thus with words Or mild, or stern in hope to save not slay, Those friends contended.

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**Who acts:** friends · **What happens:** not save, slay, contend · **To what, where:** words

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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 (friends), 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:pg78491:13:130
# text = Thus with words Or mild, or stern in hope to save not slay, Those friends contended.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	stern	stern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
14	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	contended	contend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **save** | to-infinitive | that friends *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **slay** | infinitive | that friends *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **contend** | past | that friends | words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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