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title: Eman to burn, what were it but to sow The sanguine seed of endless w… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eman to burn, what were it but to sow The sanguine seed of endless wars to come? Who acts: Eman. 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 43

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Eman to burn, what were it but to sow The sanguine seed of endless wars to come?

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**Who acts:** Eman · **What happens:** burn, be, sow, come · **To what, where:** gain, sanguine seed, Eman

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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 (Eman), 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:pg78491:14:45
# text = Eman to burn, what were it but to sow The sanguine seed of endless wars to come?
1	Eman	Eman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	appos	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	sow	sow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	sanguine	sanguine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Eman | gain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sow** | to-infinitive |  | the sanguine seed of endless wars |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent seed=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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