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title: ‘To this Ford Thou cam’st the first, old comrade! choice of arms Is… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘To this Ford Thou cam’st the first, old comrade! choice of arms Is therefore thine by right.’ Who acts: Thou, choice. 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 130

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‘To this Ford Thou cam’st the first, old comrade! choice of arms Is therefore thine by right.’

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**Who acts:** Thou, choice · **What happens:** cam'st, be · **To what, where:** first old comrade

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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, choice), 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:pg78491:13:132
# text = ‘To this Ford Thou cam’st the first, old comrade! choice of arms Is therefore thine by right.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	Ford	Ford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cam’st	cam'st	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
13	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cam'st** | past | Thou | the first old comrade |  |  |  | to this Ford | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | choice of arms |  |  |  |  | thine *nmod:poss*; right, therefore *property* | 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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