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title: Fly hence, and prove Ten years in battle-fields what might hath Love! — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fly hence, and prove Ten years in battle-fields what might hath Love! Who acts: you. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4, 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 4, sentence 37

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Fly hence, and prove Ten years in battle-fields what might hath Love!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** fly, prove, have · **To what, where:** battle fields, Love

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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 (you), 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:pg78491:4:37
# text = Fly hence, and prove Ten years in battle-fields what might hath Love!
1	Fly	fly	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	prove	prove	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	Love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	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 | **fly** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hence *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **prove** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | battle fields | year |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | might |  | Love |  |  |  | what *obj* | 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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