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title: But sloth and fear In manly hearts at worst rare visitants, Leave th… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But sloth and fear In manly hearts at worst rare visitants, Leave them betimes, like vermin caught by chance That quit ere long the clean. Who acts: you, That. 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 83

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But sloth and fear In manly hearts at worst rare visitants, Leave them betimes, like vermin caught by chance That quit ere long the clean.

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**Who acts:** you, That · **What happens:** leave, catch, quit · **To what, where:** sloth, vermin

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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, That), 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:pg78491:14:85
# text = But sloth and fear In manly hearts at worst rare visitants, Leave them betimes, like vermin caught by chance That quit ere long the clean.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	sloth	sloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	In	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	manly	manly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
10	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	visitants	visitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	betimes	betimes	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	vermin	vermin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
23	quit	quit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
24	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | sloth at worst rare visitants and fear in manly hearts |  |  |  | like vermin; visitants *= visitant* *obj*; betimes *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | participle |  | vermin *not said here* |  |  |  | by chance | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **quit** | past | That |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=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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