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title: ‘But with them plight this covenant beside, That instant when they t… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘But with them plight this covenant beside, That instant when they tread my kingdom’s strand To me they speed; with no man else abide; Favour or feast accept at no man’s hand: My bread must be the first those exiles break; All griefs thenceforth forgotten for its sake. Who acts: sons, man, Favour, b
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 45

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‘But with them plight this covenant beside, That instant when they tread my kingdom’s strand To me they speed; with no man else abide; Favour or feast accept at no man’s hand: My bread must be the first those exiles break; All griefs thenceforth forgotten for its sake.

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**Who acts:** sons, man, Favour, bread, exiles, griefs · **What happens:** plight, tread, speed, abide, accept, be · **To what, where:** covenant, instant, strand, me, hand

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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 (sons, man, Favour, bread), 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:pg78491:5:45
# text = ‘But with them plight this covenant beside, That instant when they tread my kingdom’s strand To me they speed; with no man else abide; Favour or feast accept at no man’s hand: My bread must be the first those exiles break; All griefs thenceforth forgotten for its sake.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
5	plight	plight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	tread	tread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	strand	strand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	To	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	speed	speed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	else	else	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
30	Favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	accept	accept	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
36	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’s	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
40	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
42	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	cop	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	33	parataxis	_	_
46	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	47	det	_	_
47	exiles	exile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
48	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	53	punct	_	_
50	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	51	det	_	_
51	griefs	grief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
52	thenceforth	thenceforth	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
54	for	for	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plight** | present |  | this covenant |  | that instant |  | with sons *= son* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tread** | present | sons *= son* | my kingdom's strand | me |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location strand=Theme |
| 3 | **speed** | present | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **abide** | infinitive | no man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **accept** | present | Favour or feast |  |  | no man's hand |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | must | My bread |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **break** | present | that exiles |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **forget** | participle | all griefs |  |  |  |  | for grief's sake; thenceforth *property* | 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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