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title: True prince, though scion of a house deject, The queen, who judges a… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: True prince, though scion of a house deject, The queen, who judges all men by their deeds, This day hath in thine honour made a feast And sues to it thy presence. Who acts: queen, day, honour, thine. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Ver
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 23

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True prince, though scion of a house deject, The queen, who judges all men by their deeds, This day hath in thine honour made a feast And sues to it thy presence.

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**Who acts:** queen, day, honour, thine · **What happens:** judge, have, make, sue, honour · **To what, where:** men, feast, presence, honour, True prince

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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 (queen, day, honour, thine), 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:pg78491:13:25
# text = True prince, though scion of a house deject, The queen, who judges all men by their deeds, This day hath in thine honour made a feast And sues to it thy presence.
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	scion	scion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	deject	deject	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	judges	judge	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	sues	sue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **judge** | present | the queen | all men |  |  |  | by chief's deeds | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent man=Value |
| 2 | **have** | present | this day |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past | thine honour | a feast |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset feast=Product |
| 4 | **sue** | present | thine honour *not said here* | thy presence | honour |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **honour** |  | thine |  |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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