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title: I reign no more; not less my name Would move in might before him lik… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: I reign no more; not less my name Would move in might before him like a sword Though all the hosts of Erin ’gainst him came!’ Who acts: I, name, hosts, my. 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
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 88

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I reign no more; not less my name Would move in might before him like a sword Though all the hosts of Erin ’gainst him came!’

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**Who acts:** I, name, hosts, my · **What happens:** reign, move, come, name · **To what, where:** more

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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, name, hosts, my), 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:pg78491:5:88
# text = I reign no more; not less my name Would move in might before him like a sword Though all the hosts of Erin ’gainst him came!’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reign	reign	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	’	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	gainst	gainst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reign** | present | I | no more |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | would | my name |  |  |  | before King | like a sword; less *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme before he=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come** | past | all hosts of Erin's gainst  King |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **name** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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