--- title: ‘These four--thy children--with me I will take To please my father’s… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: ‘These four--thy children--with me I will take To please my father’s eye; he loves them well: Thou too, whene’er thy leisure serves, shalt make Thither thy journey.’ Who acts: I, father, whene’er, thy. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, father, whene’er, thy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:8:57 # text = ‘These four--thy children--with me I will take To please my father’s eye; he loves them well: Thou too, whene’er thy leisure serves, shalt make Thither thy journey.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 These this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 -- -- PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 -- -- PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nmod _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 13 To to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 please please VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ’s 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 loves love VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 25 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 conj _ _ 26 too too ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 whene’er whene'er NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 leisure leisure NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 serves serve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 35 Thither thither ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | future | I | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **please** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my father's eye | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer | | 3 | **love** | present | father | eyes *= eye* | | | | Thou *conj*; well *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 4 | **serve** | present | whene’er | | | | | thy leisure *nsubj* | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | shall | whene’er *not said here* | thy journey | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product | | 7 | **journey** | | thy | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/58/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/)