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title: What better lot For him than this;--the bandits chased, to die Besid… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: What better lot For him than this;--the bandits chased, to die Beside his master’s gate?’ 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 286

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What better lot For him than this;--the bandits chased, to die Beside his master’s gate?’

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**What happens:** chase, die · **To what, where:** gate

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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: 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:pg78491:15:288
# text = What better lot For him than this;--the bandits chased, to die Beside his master’s gate?’
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj:outer	_	_
2	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
4	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bandits	bandit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
16	Beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | past |  |  |  |  |  | What  better lot for lot than this *nsubj:outer*; the bandits *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | lot's master's gate |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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