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title: Friendship eterne They pledged; then strove ten years, with hosts al… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Friendship eterne They pledged; then strove ten years, with hosts allied So huge that none remained to till the land. Who acts: Friendship eterne, hosts, none. 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
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 65

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Friendship eterne They pledged; then strove ten years, with hosts allied So huge that none remained to till the land.

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**Who acts:** Friendship eterne, hosts, none · **What happens:** pledge, strive, ally, remain

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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 (Friendship eterne, hosts, none), 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:pg78491:14:67
# text = Friendship eterne They pledged; then strove ten years, with hosts allied So huge that none remained to till the land.
1	Friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	eterne	eterne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pledged	pledge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	strove	strive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	allied	ally	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	So	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	18	nsubj	_	_
18	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	xcomp	_	_
20	till	till	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pledge** | past | Friendship eterne |  |  |  |  | kings *= king* *nsubj* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **strive** | past | Friendship eterne *not said here* |  |  |  | then; year |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ally** | past | hosts |  |  |  |  | huge *property* | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **remain** | past | none |  |  |  | till the land |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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