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title: Far away in Scatha’s isle A great troth bound us and a vow eterne Ne… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Far away in Scatha’s isle A great troth bound us and a vow eterne Never to raise war-weapons, each on each:-- ’Twas Finobar that snared thee! Who acts: great troth, vow eterne, Twas. 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 205

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Far away in Scatha’s isle A great troth bound us and a vow eterne Never to raise war-weapons, each on each:-- ’Twas Finobar that snared thee!

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**Who acts:** great troth, vow eterne, Twas · **What happens:** bound, not raise, snare · **To what, where:** us, isle, war weapons, thee

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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 (great troth, vow eterne, 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:pg78491:13:207
# text = Far away in Scatha’s isle A great troth bound us and a vow eterne Never to raise war-weapons, each on each:-- ’Twas Finobar that snared thee!
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Scatha	Scatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	isle	isle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
7	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	troth	troth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	bound	bound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	eterne	eterne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	appos	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	’	's	PART	POS	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Twas	Twas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	Finobar	Finobar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	snared	snare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
33	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bound** | present | a great troth | us |  | Scatha's isle |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location we=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **raise** | to-infinitive | a vow eterne | war weapons |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme |
| 3 | **snare** | past | Twas | thee |  |  |  | that *nsubj* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thou=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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