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title: But now triumphant, will ye crouch and cower In death the coward’s j… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But now triumphant, will ye crouch and cower In death the coward’s jest, the traitor’s prize?’ ’ Who acts: ye, coward. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7, 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 7, sentence 60

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But now triumphant, will ye crouch and cower In death the coward’s jest, the traitor’s prize?’ ’

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**Who acts:** ye, coward · **What happens:** crouch, cower, jest · **To what, where:** jest, death

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, coward), 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:pg78491:7:60
# text = But now triumphant, will ye crouch and cower In death the coward’s jest, the traitor’s prize?’ ’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	triumphant	triumphant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
7	crouch	crouch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	cower	cower	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	In	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	coward	coward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	jest	jest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	traitor	traitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crouch** | future | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cower** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | the coward's jest and the traitor's prize |  | death |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **jest** |  | the coward |  |  |  |  |  | nom jest «communication 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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