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title: And they made answer: ‘Till the Tailkenn come We tread not land! — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And they made answer: ‘Till the Tailkenn come We tread not land! Who acts: arms, We. 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 5

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And they made answer: ‘Till the Tailkenn come We tread not land!

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**Who acts:** arms, We · **What happens:** answer, come, not tread · **To what, where:** land

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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 (arms, We), 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:pg78491:9:5
# text = And they made answer: ‘Till the Tailkenn come We tread not land!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	made	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Till	till	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Tailkenn	Tailkenn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	tread	tread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | may | arms *= arm* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present |  |  |  |  | till the Tailkenn |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **tread** | present | We | land |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location land=Theme |

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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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