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title: For them we fight, And in their honour hold, on peaceful days, Like… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: For them we fight, And in their honour hold, on peaceful days, Like them our roaring synods!’ Who acts: Bulls, our. 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 75

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For them we fight, And in their honour hold, on peaceful days, Like them our roaring synods!’

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**Who acts:** Bulls, our · **What happens:** fight, hold, roar, honour · **To what, where:** honour, synods

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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 (Bulls, our), 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:pg78491:14:77
# text = For them we fight, And in their honour hold, on peaceful days, Like them our roaring synods!’
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fight	fight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
20	synods	synod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | present | Bulls *= bull* |  |  |  |  | we *nsubj* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hold** | present | Bulls *= bull* *not said here* |  |  | Bulls's honour | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in honour=Location |
| 3 | **roar** | gerund | our | synods |  |  |  | like Bulls *= bull* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location synod=Theme |
| 4 | **honour** |  | Bulls *= bull* |  |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state 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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