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title: I these three will test, And learn by proof which loves King Conor b… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: I these three will test, And learn by proof which loves King Conor best.’ Who acts: I, proof. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 5, 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 5, sentence 26

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I these three will test, And learn by proof which loves King Conor best.’

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**Who acts:** I, proof · **What happens:** test, learn, love · **To what, where:** King

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, proof), 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:pg78491:5:26
# text = I these three will test, And learn by proof which loves King Conor best.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	test	test	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **test** | future | I |  |  |  |  | this three *nsubj* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **learn** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by proof | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **love** | present | proof | King |  |  |  | well *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus |

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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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