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title: I have made that offer thrice To three dead warriors with the king’s… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have made that offer thrice To three dead warriors with the king’s consent, Never till now with hers!’ Who acts: I, that, king. 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 ev
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 84

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I have made that offer thrice To three dead warriors with the king’s consent, Never till now with hers!’

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**Who acts:** I, that, king · **What happens:** make, offer, consent · **To what, where:** that, thrice, three dead warriors

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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, that, king), 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:pg78491:13:86
# text = I have made that offer thrice To three dead warriors with the king’s consent, Never till now with hers!’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
5	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	thrice	thrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	To	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
18	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · perfect | I | that |  |  |  | with scorn | tree rules |
| 2 | **offer** | infinitive | that *not said here* | thrice |  |  |  | to three dead warriors with the king's consent *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent thrice=Theme to warrior=Goal |
| 3 | **consent** |  | the king |  |  |  |  |  | nom consent «communication 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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