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title: I would that sister were my sister too, Partaker of my heart, my hop… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: I would that sister were my sister too, Partaker of my heart, my hope, my life: I have no youthful friend!’ Who acts: I, my. 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 c
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 46

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I would that sister were my sister too, Partaker of my heart, my hope, my life: I have no youthful friend!’

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** be, have, hope · **To what, where:** sister, youthful friend

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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 (I, my), 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:pg78491:13:48
# text = I would that sister were my sister too, Partaker of my heart, my hope, my life: I have no youthful friend!’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Partaker	partaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
24	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | I | my sister and Partaker of my heart and my hope and my life |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss*; Partaker of my heart *conj*; my hope *conj*; my life *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | I | no youthful friend |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient |
| 3 | **hope** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: 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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