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title: ‘I come to you at peril of my life-- Hush, hush! place hand on lip! — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I come to you at peril of my life-- Hush, hush! place hand on lip! Who acts: I. 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 clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 61

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‘I come to you at peril of my life-- Hush, hush! place hand on lip!

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** come, peril · **To what, where:** you, peril, life

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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), 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:pg78491:6:62
# text = ‘I come to you at peril of my life-- Hush, hush! place hand on lip!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	peril	peril	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Hush	hush	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	hush	hush	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | I |  | you | peril of my life |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **peril** |  |  | my life |  |  |  |  | nom peril «state transitive»: of=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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