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title: On battle-field Men say that I was born; on battle-fields Have lived… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: On battle-field Men say that I was born; on battle-fields Have lived from youth to age. Who acts: field Men. 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 34

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On battle-field Men say that I was born; on battle-fields Have lived from youth to age.

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**Who acts:** field Men · **What happens:** say, bear, live · **To what, where:** I, battle fields · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (field Men), 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:pg78491:15:36
# text = On battle-field Men say that I was born; on battle-fields Have lived from youth to age.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
16	Have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | field Men |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bear** | past · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **live** | present · perfect | field Men *not said here* |  |  | battle fields | to age | from youth | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on field=Location |

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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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