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title: I wither in my prime: Home to my father I would speed, and drink Onc… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: I wither in my prime: Home to my father I would speed, and drink Once more the breezes of my native clime. Who acts: I, native clime. 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
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 55

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I wither in my prime: Home to my father I would speed, and drink Once more the breezes of my native clime.

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**Who acts:** I, native clime · **What happens:** wither, speed, breeze · **To what, where:** prime, drink

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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 (I, native clime), 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:pg78491:8:55
# text = I wither in my prime: Home to my father I would speed, and drink Once more the breezes of my native clime.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wither	wither	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	prime	prime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
7	Home	home	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	speed	speed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	breezes	breeze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	clime	clime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wither** | present | I |  |  | my prime |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **speed** | would | I | drink |  |  |  | to my father *result*; the breezes of my native clime *obl*; home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to father=Result |
| 3 | **breeze** |  | my native clime |  |  |  |  |  | nom breeze «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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