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title: ‘In ten years bring me back your trophied spoils From every land and… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘In ten years bring me back your trophied spoils From every land and clime; for mine they are! Who acts: you, brothers. 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 38

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‘In ten years bring me back your trophied spoils From every land and clime; for mine they are!

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**Who acts:** you, brothers · **What happens:** bring back, trophy, spoil, be · **To what, where:** me, land

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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, brothers), 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:pg78491:4:38
# text = ‘In ten years bring me back your trophied spoils From every land and clime; for mine they are!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
5	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	back	back	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	trophied	trophy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	nsubj	_	_
10	spoils	spoil	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	From	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	clime	clime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	parataxis	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring back** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  | year |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
| 2 | **trophy** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spoil** | present |  |  |  | every land and clime |  | your *nmod:poss* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | for mine | 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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