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title: She whom nurse I call Has told me all the Three are kind and brave:… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: She whom nurse I call Has told me all the Three are kind and brave: Fain would I sister be to each and all: Fain too my life from love tyrannic save!’ Who acts: I, Has, Three, Fain. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 28

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She whom nurse I call Has told me all the Three are kind and brave: Fain would I sister be to each and all: Fain too my life from love tyrannic save!’

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**Who acts:** I, Has, Three, Fain · **What happens:** call, tell, be, sister · **To what, where:** love tyrannic save, me · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Has, Three, Fain), 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:pg78491:4:28
# text = She whom nurse I call Has told me all the Three are kind and brave: Fain would I sister be to each and all: Fain too my life from love tyrannic save!’
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	compound	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	nmod	_	_
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Has	Has	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	Fain	Fain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Fain	Fain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
28	too	too	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	tyrannic	tyrannic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	save	save	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | I |  |  | love tyrannic save |  | She nurse *compound*; Fain  my life *parataxis* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from save=Source |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Has |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present | all Three |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | all Three *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sister** | would | Fain |  |  |  |  | to each; I *nsubj* | 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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