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title: Know besides That battle of earth’s battles till this hour Shall pro… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Know besides That battle of earth’s battles till this hour Shall prove the bloodiest. Who acts: you, hour, earth. 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 59

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Know besides That battle of earth’s battles till this hour Shall prove the bloodiest.

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**Who acts:** you, hour, earth · **What happens:** know, prove, battle · **To what, where:** bloodiest, battles

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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 (you, hour, earth), 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:pg78491:15:61
# text = Know besides That battle of earth’s battles till this hour Shall prove the bloodiest.
1	Know	know	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bloodiest	bloody	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | besides that battle of earth's battles | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **prove** | shall | this hour | the bloodiest |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bloody=Theme |
| 3 | **battle** |  |  | earth's battles |  |  |  |  | nom battle «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **battle** |  | earth |  |  |  |  |  | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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