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title: Now therefore be thy love and fealty proved: To Alba speed: bring ho… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now therefore be thy love and fealty proved: To Alba speed: bring home that exiled Three, Thyself their surety, pledge, and guarantee. Who acts: love, home. 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 tre
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 44

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Now therefore be thy love and fealty proved: To Alba speed: bring home that exiled Three, Thyself their surety, pledge, and guarantee.

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**Who acts:** love, home · **What happens:** be, prove, bring, exile · **To what, where:** love, home, Three

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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 (love, home), 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:pg78491:5:44
# text = Now therefore be thy love and fealty proved: To Alba speed: bring home that exiled Three, Thyself their surety, pledge, and guarantee.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fealty	fealty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	proved	prove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	To	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Alba	Alba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
15	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	exiled	exile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	14	conj	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	surety	surety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	pledge	pledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	guarantee	guarantee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive |  | thy love and fealty |  |  |  | thy *nmod:poss*; fealty *conj*; therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **prove** | past | thy love and fealty |  |  |  | now | to Alba speed | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to speed=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive | thy love and fealty *not said here* | home |  |  |  | Thyself *conj*; sons's surety and pledge *obj*; guarantee *parataxis* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent home=Destination surety=Theme |
| 4 | **exile** | past | home | Three |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme |

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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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