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title: Thou man that mak’st far down yon cave of death, Be sure thou dig it… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou man that mak’st far down yon cave of death, Be sure thou dig it deep, and dig it wide! Who acts: man, thou. 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 75

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Thou man that mak’st far down yon cave of death, Be sure thou dig it deep, and dig it wide!

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**Who acts:** man, thou · **What happens:** mak'st, be, dig · **To what, where:** yon cave, cave, man

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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 (man, thou), 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:pg78491:7:75
# text = Thou man that mak’st far down yon cave of death, Be sure thou dig it deep, and dig it wide!
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mak’st	mak'st	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	yon	yon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
15	dig	dig	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mak'st** | present | man  Thou | yon cave of death |  |  |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dig** | present | thou | cave |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **dig** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | cave |  |  |  | wide *property* | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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