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title: With rumours dark Emania’s streets are rife: The king has vowed your… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: With rumours dark Emania’s streets are rife: The king has vowed your death:--draws any near? Who acts: rumours, king, rife, your. 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 eve
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 63

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With rumours dark Emania’s streets are rife: The king has vowed your death:--draws any near?

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**Who acts:** rumours, king, rife, your · **What happens:** be, vow, draw, die · **To what, where:** rife, death, any

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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 (rumours, king, rife, your), 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:pg78491:6:64
# text = With rumours dark Emania’s streets are rife: The king has vowed your death:--draws any near?
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	rumours	rumour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	Emania	Emania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	rife	rife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	vowed	vow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	draws	draw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
20	near	near	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | rumours and Emania's dark streets | rife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **vow** | present · perfect | the king | your death |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **draw** | present | rife *not said here* | any |  |  |  | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme |
| 4 | **die** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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