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title: With a haughtier mien, Yet kingly less, King Conchobar replied: ‘Tho… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: With a haughtier mien, Yet kingly less, King Conchobar replied: ‘Thou know’st me; and ’tis well! Who acts: King, Thou. 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 166

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With a haughtier mien, Yet kingly less, King Conchobar replied: ‘Thou know’st me; and ’tis well!

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**Who acts:** King, Thou · **What happens:** reply, know'st · **To what, where:** me

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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 (King, Thou), 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:pg78491:15:168
# text = With a haughtier mien, Yet kingly less, King Conchobar replied: ‘Thou know’st me; and ’tis well!
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	haughtier	haughty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	mien	mien	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	kingly	kingly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Conchobar	Conchobar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
16	know’st	know'st	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | King |  |  |  |  | with a haughtier mien; tis *conj* | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with mien=Eventuality |
| 2 | **know'st** | past | Thou | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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