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title: Compared with her the rest are sheep and kine-- Bid Naisi die! his c… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Compared with her the rest are sheep and kine-- Bid Naisi die! his consort crown as thine!’ Who acts: Breeze. 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 65

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Compared with her the rest are sheep and kine-- Bid Naisi die! his consort crown as thine!’

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**Who acts:** Breeze · **What happens:** compare, be, crown · **To what, where:** consort crown, rest sheep

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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 (Breeze), 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:pg78491:4:66
# text = Compared with her the rest are sheep and kine-- Bid Naisi die! his consort crown as thine!’
1	Compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	kine	kine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Bid	Bid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	Naisi	Naisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	die	die	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	consort	consort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | participle |  | Breeze's consort crown |  |  |  | with land; as thine | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent crown=Patient with she=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the rest sheep and kine and Bid die |  |  |  | kine *conj*; Bid die *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **crown** |  | Breeze |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: 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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