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title: If your sire Makes speed, he’ll trample down this flame in mire!’ — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: If your sire Makes speed, he’ll trample down this flame in mire!’ Who acts: sire. 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 70

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If your sire Makes speed, he’ll trample down this flame in mire!’

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**Who acts:** sire · **What happens:** make, trample down · **To what, where:** speed, flame, mire

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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 (sire), 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:pg78491:6:71
# text = If your sire Makes speed, he’ll trample down this flame in mire!’
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	Makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	trample	trample	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	mire	mire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | your sire | speed |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speed=Product |
| 2 | **trample down** | future | sire | this flame |  | mire |  |  | tree rules |

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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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