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title: Of all those knights but two Will’d not that deed--the bravest Erin… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of all those knights but two Will’d not that deed--the bravest Erin knew. Who acts: two, bravest Erin. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 2, 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 2, sentence 92

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Of all those knights but two Will’d not that deed--the bravest Erin knew.

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**Who acts:** two, bravest Erin · **What happens:** not 'd, know · **To what, where:** deed

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, bravest Erin), 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:pg78491:2:97
# text = Of all those knights but two Will’d not that deed--the bravest Erin knew.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’d	'd	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	bravest	brave	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **'d** | future | two | that deed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | past | the bravest Erin | that deed *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer deed=Stimulus |

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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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