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title: My Lord is naught; Nor will he trust his children to thy hand, Lest… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: My Lord is naught; Nor will he trust his children to thy hand, Lest thou should’st slay them.’ Who acts: Nor, thou. 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 80

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My Lord is naught; Nor will he trust his children to thy hand, Lest thou should’st slay them.’

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**Who acts:** Nor, thou · **What happens:** be, trust, slay · **To what, where:** naught, children, hand, hands

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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 (Nor, thou), 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:pg78491:8:80
# text = My Lord is naught; Nor will he trust his children to thy hand, Lest thou should’st slay them.’
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	Lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
18	should’st	should'st	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	slay	slay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | naught |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **trust** | future | Nor | Nor's children | thy hand |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Theme to hand=Recipient |
| 3 | **slay** | infinitive | thou | hands *= hand* |  |  |  | should’st *nsubj* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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