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title: Thou shalt be with them when the sleet-wind blows Not less than in t… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou shalt be with them when the sleet-wind blows Not less than in the violet-braided bower: Through thee the desert sands shall bud the rose, The wild wave anthems sing! Who acts: Thou, sleet wind, desert, thee. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 25

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Thou shalt be with them when the sleet-wind blows Not less than in the violet-braided bower: Through thee the desert sands shall bud the rose, The wild wave anthems sing!

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**Who acts:** Thou, sleet wind, desert, thee, wild wave anthems · **What happens:** be, blow, braid, sand, bud, sing · **To what, where:** less, rose

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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 (Thou, sleet wind, desert, thee), 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:pg78491:8:25
# text = Thou shalt be with them when the sleet-wind blows Not less than in the violet-braided bower: Through thee the desert sands shall bud the rose, The wild wave anthems sing!
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
2	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	sleet	sleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	obj	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	violet	violet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	braided	braid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	bower	bower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
22	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nsubj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sands	sand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	bud	bud	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	anthems	anthem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | shall | Thou |  |  |  |  | with methinks *= methink* | tree rules |
| 2 | **blow** | present | the sleet wind | less than the braided bower |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent less=Patient |
| 3 | **braid** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | violet *compound* | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sand** | present | the desert |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **bud** | shall | thee | the rose |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the wild wave anthems |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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