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title: ‘Bad deed afflicting babes that harmed thee not; Bad deed, and to th… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 68

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‘Bad deed afflicting babes that harmed thee not; Bad deed, and to thyself an evil dower: Disastrous more than ours shall be thy lot!

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**Who acts:** afflicting babes, evil dower · **What happens:** afflict, not harm, be · **To what, where:** thee, lot

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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 (afflicting babes, evil dower), 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:pg78491:8:68
# text = ‘Bad deed afflicting babes that harmed thee not; Bad deed, and to thyself an evil dower: Disastrous more than ours shall be thy lot!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	afflicting	afflict	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	babes	babe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	harmed	harm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	obj	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	28	obl	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	dower	dower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Disastrous	disastrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	conj	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
27	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **afflict** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | Bad deed *compound* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **harm** | past | afflicting babes | thee |  |  |  | Bad deed *obl*; that *nsubj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | shall | a evil dower | thy lot |  |  |  | to thyself; thy *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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