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title: I give you, brothers mine; And yet that counsel true ye will not tak… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: I give you, brothers mine; And yet that counsel true ye will not take; There shine the rocks of Rathlin! Who acts: I, ye. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 19

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I give you, brothers mine; And yet that counsel true ye will not take; There shine the rocks of Rathlin!

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**Who acts:** I, ye · **What happens:** give, not take, shine · **To what, where:** brothers, you, rocks

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ye), 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:pg78491:6:20
# text = I give you, brothers mine; And yet that counsel true ye will not take; There shine the rocks of Rathlin!
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
11	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
13	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	shine	shine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Rathlin	Rathlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | I | brothers  mine | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **take** | future | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shine** | infinitive |  | the rocks of Rathlin |  | there |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rock=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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