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title: I take mine own, on thee a sword bestowing That best becomes thee. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: I take mine own, on thee a sword bestowing That best becomes thee. Who acts: I, sword. 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 118

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I take mine own, on thee a sword bestowing That best becomes thee.

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**Who acts:** I, sword · **What happens:** take, bestow, become · **To what, where:** mine, best, thee

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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 (I, sword), 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:pg78491:15:120
# text = I take mine own, on thee a sword bestowing That best becomes thee.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	bestowing	bestow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
12	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	obj	_	_
13	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | I | mine |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument my=Theme own=Destination |
| 2 | **bestow** | gerund | a sword *not said here* | best  That |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | present | a sword | thee |  | thee |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient thou=Result |

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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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