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title: Say, ere sets yon sun I join the king my master, from his gate Repel… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Say, ere sets yon sun I join the king my master, from his gate Repel with scorn the invader.’ Who acts: you, ere, I. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 141

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Say, ere sets yon sun I join the king my master, from his gate Repel with scorn the invader.’

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**Who acts:** you, ere, I · **What happens:** say, set, join · **To what, where:** yon sun, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ere, I), 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:pg78491:14:143
# text = Say, ere sets yon sun I join the king my master, from his gate Repel with scorn the invader.’
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	ere	ere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	yon	yon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
17	Repel	Repel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	scorn	scorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	invader	invader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **set** | present | ere | yon sun |  |  |  | Ere's gate with scorn *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **join** | present | I | the king |  |  |  | my master *obj* | tree rules |

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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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