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title: Yet Fate must rule, whate’er betide! — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet Fate must rule, whate’er betide! Who acts: Fate, whate’er. 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 every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 75

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Yet Fate must rule, whate’er betide!

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**Who acts:** Fate, whate’er · **What happens:** rule, betide

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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 (Fate, whate’er), 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:pg78491:8:75
# text = Yet Fate must rule, whate’er betide!
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	whate’er	whate'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	betide	betide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | must | Fate |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **betide** | infinitive | whate’er |  |  |  |  |  | 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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