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title: Twas not I. I know you now, and proffer royal terms Confirmed by gua… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 82

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Twas not I. I know you now, and proffer royal terms Confirmed by guarantee of all our kings: Accept this combat; and the princess wed!

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**Who acts:** Twas, proffer royal terms · **What happens:** know, confirm, accept, guarantee · **To what, where:** you, proffer royal terms, combat, kings

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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 (Twas, proffer royal terms), 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:pg78491:13:84
# text = Twas not I. I know you now, and proffer royal terms Confirmed by guarantee of all our kings: Accept this combat; and the princess wed!
1	Twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	I.	i.	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	proffer	proffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
13	Confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	guarantee	guarantee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	wed	wed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | Twas  I. | you |  |  | now | proffer royal terms *obl*; I *nsubj*; the princess wed *conj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 2 | **confirm** | participle |  | proffer royal terms *not said here* |  |  |  | by guarantee of our kings | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **accept** | infinitive | proffer royal terms *not said here* | this combat |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent combat=Theme |
| 4 | **guarantee** |  |  | our kings |  |  |  |  | nom guarantee «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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