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title: Tis just, ’tis meet Their Sister take her place before their feet. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tis just, ’tis meet Their Sister take her place before their feet. Who acts: Tis, Sister. 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 77

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Tis just, ’tis meet Their Sister take her place before their feet.

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**Who acts:** Tis, Sister · **What happens:** meet, take · **To what, where:** place, feet

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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 (Tis, Sister), 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:pg78491:7:77
# text = Tis just, ’tis meet Their Sister take her place before their feet.
1	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	’	'	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present | Tis |  |  |  |  | tis *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | Three's Sister | sister's place |  | Three's feet |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme before foot=Destination |

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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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