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title: ‘I doubted Conor’s faith: if mine the fault Harbouring distrust, Kin… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I doubted Conor’s faith: if mine the fault Harbouring distrust, King Conor thus will speak: “Abide with me three months: partake my salt; Drink of my cup; my bread securely break!” Who acts: I, mine, fault, bread. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» b
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 42

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‘I doubted Conor’s faith: if mine the fault Harbouring distrust, King Conor thus will speak: “Abide with me three months: partake my salt; Drink of my cup; my bread securely break!”

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**Who acts:** I, mine, fault, bread · **What happens:** doubt, fault, harbour, speak, abide, partake · **To what, where:** faith, distrust, salt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, mine, fault, 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:pg78491:6:43
# text = ‘I doubted Conor’s faith: if mine the fault Harbouring distrust, King Conor thus will speak: “Abide with me three months: partake my salt; Drink of my cup; my bread securely break!”
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	doubted	doubt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
4	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
12	Harbouring	harbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	distrust	distrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Abide	abide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
28	partake	partake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
37	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	securely	securely	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **doubt** | past | I | Conor's faith |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Theme |
| 2 | **fault** *a condition, not said to happen* |  | mine |  |  |  |  | King *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **harbour** | gerund | the fault *not said here* | distrust |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | future |  |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **abide** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | month | with me | tree rules |
| 6 | **partake** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my salt |  |  |  | Drink of my cup *obl* | tree rules |
| 7 | **break** *in a quote* | present | my bread |  |  |  |  | securely *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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