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title: The Fates reserve it for a race more true, Ye children of Dedannan’s… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fates reserve it for a race more true, Ye children of Dedannan’s stock, than you!’ Who acts: Fates, Ye, Dedannan. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 8, 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 8, sentence 12

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The Fates reserve it for a race more true, Ye children of Dedannan’s stock, than you!’

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**Who acts:** Fates, Ye, Dedannan · **What happens:** reserve, child, stock · **To what, where:** maid

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fates, Ye, Dedannan), 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:pg78491:8:12
# text = The Fates reserve it for a race more true, Ye children of Dedannan’s stock, than you!’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fates	fate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reserve	reserve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Dedannan	Dedannan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reserve** | present | the Fates | maid |  |  |  | for a race; you *conj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for race=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **child** |  | Ye |  |  |  |  | of Dedannan's stock | tree rules |
| 3 | **stock** |  | Dedannan |  |  |  |  |  | nom stock «possession transitive»: 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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