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title: To earth the warrior sank: Dying, he spake: ‘Not thine this deed, O… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: To earth the warrior sank: Dying, he spake: ‘Not thine this deed, O friend-- ’Twas Meave who winged that bolt into my heart!’ Who acts: warrior, Dying, ’ Twas, that. 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 depe
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 192

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To earth the warrior sank: Dying, he spake: ‘Not thine this deed, O friend-- ’Twas Meave who winged that bolt into my heart!’

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**Who acts:** warrior, Dying, ’ Twas, that · **What happens:** sink, speak, wing, bolt · **To what, where:** earth, heart · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (warrior, Dying, ’ Twas, that), 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:pg78491:13:194
# text = To earth the warrior sank: Dying, he spake: ‘Not thine this deed, O friend-- ’Twas Meave who winged that bolt into my heart!’
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Dying	Dying	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
14	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	’	'	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
23	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	winged	wing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
27	bolt	bolt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | past | the warrior | earth and Dying and thine deed and friend and ’ Twas *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent earth=Patient |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* |  | Dying |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wing** | past | ’ Twas |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bolt** | present | that |  |  | my heart |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into heart=Initial\_Location |

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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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