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title: I that inspired, can well requite your toils: Ever till then, my spi… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: I that inspired, can well requite your toils: Ever till then, my spirit like a star, Shall o’er you hang! Who acts: you, your. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 39

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I that inspired, can well requite your toils: Ever till then, my spirit like a star, Shall o’er you hang!

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** requite, hang, toil · **To what, where:** toils, Shall o’er

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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, your), 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:pg78491:4:39
# text = I that inspired, can well requite your toils: Ever till then, my spirit like a star, Shall o’er you hang!
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	inspired	inspired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	requite	requite	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	toils	toil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
12	till	till	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Shall	Shall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	hang	hang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **requite** | can |  | your toils |  |  | ever; then | my spirit like a star *obl*; well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hang** | present | you | Shall o’er *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent o'er=Patient |
| 4 | **toil** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom toil «act intransitive»: 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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