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title: The Gaels, our scourge, and Erin’s sore disgrace, Advance, each day,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Gaels, our scourge, and Erin’s sore disgrace, Advance, each day, their armies, clan on clan; Against them march thy host with mine, and take To wife my daughter, for thy children’s sake.’ Who acts: Erin. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubre
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 35

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The Gaels, our scourge, and Erin’s sore disgrace, Advance, each day, their armies, clan on clan; Against them march thy host with mine, and take To wife my daughter, for thy children’s sake.’

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**Who acts:** Erin · **What happens:** march, take, disgrace · **To what, where:** host, wife, Gaels

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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 (Erin), 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:pg78491:8:35
# text = The Gaels, our scourge, and Erin’s sore disgrace, Advance, each day, their armies, clan on clan; Against them march thy host with mine, and take To wife my daughter, for thy children’s sake.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Gaels	Gael	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	scourge	scourge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Advance	Advance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	Against	against	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
27	march	march	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
28	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
35	To	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’s	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **march** | present |  | thy host |  |  |  | against people; with mine | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent host=Theme against they=Trajectory |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive |  | wife |  |  |  | for thy children's sake; my daughter *obj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Theme daughter=Destination |
| 4 | **disgrace** |  | Erin |  |  |  |  |  | nom disgrace «state 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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