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title: He turned to her and spake: ‘Thou hear’st the charge: how makest tho… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He turned to her and spake: ‘Thou hear’st the charge: how makest thou reply?’ Who acts: throng, Thou. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 9, 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 9, sentence 22

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He turned to her and spake: ‘Thou hear’st the charge: how makest thou reply?’

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**Who acts:** throng, Thou · **What happens:** turn, hear'st, make, reply · **To what, where:** rod, charge, thou

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (throng, 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:pg78491:9:22
# text = He turned to her and spake: ‘Thou hear’st the charge: how makest thou reply?’
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hear’st	hear'st	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	makest	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obj	_	_
17	reply	reply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | throng |  | rod |  |  | spake *conj* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result |
| 2 | **hear'st** | past | Thou | the charge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | Thou *not said here* | thou |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* | infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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