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title: For know, great Queen, even now the Red Branch Knights Car-borne des… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: For know, great Queen, even now the Red Branch Knights Car-borne descend yon slopes! Who acts: Branch Knights. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15, 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 15, sentence 104

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For know, great Queen, even now the Red Branch Knights Car-borne descend yon slopes!

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**Who acts:** Branch Knights · **What happens:** bear, descend · **To what, where:** Branch Knights, yon slopes

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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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Branch Knights), 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:pg78491:15:106
# text = For know, great Queen, even now the Red Branch Knights Car-borne descend yon slopes!
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	know	know	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
11	Branch	Branch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Knights	Knight	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	Car	Car	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
16	descend	descend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	yon	yon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	slopes	slope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  | the Branch Knights and Car *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **descend** | present | the Branch Knights and Car | yon slopes |  |  | now | for know | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location slope=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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