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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 30

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‘Buini I saw, the Ruthless Red; full strong He towered, and stately as a summer tree: But, when that strife dishonest did us wrong, No help he proved, O Love, to thine and thee!

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**Who acts:** Buini, strife · **What happens:** see, tower, do, prove · **To what, where:** us, help

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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 (Buini, strife), 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:pg78491:6:31
# text = ‘Buini I saw, the Ruthless Red; full strong He towered, and stately as a summer tree: But, when that strife dishonest did us wrong, No help he proved, O Love, to thine and thee!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Buini	Buini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Ruthless	Ruthless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
12	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	towered	tower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	stately	stately	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	_
28	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
29	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	proved	prove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Love	Love	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Buini |  |  |  |  | the Ruthless Red *vocative*; I *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **tower** | past | Buini |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past |  | us |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Eventuality |
| 4 | **prove** | past | strife | no help *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=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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