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title: Thou therefore make the lay, ere yet we flee From this our exile’s c… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou therefore make the lay, ere yet we flee From this our exile’s cradle, sweet as home!’ Who acts: Thou, 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 50

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Thou therefore make the lay, ere yet we flee From this our exile’s cradle, sweet as home!’

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**Who acts:** Thou, we · **What happens:** make, flee · **To what, where:** lay, cradle

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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 (Thou, 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:pg78491:9:51
# text = Thou therefore make the lay, ere yet we flee From this our exile’s cradle, sweet as home!’
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lay	lay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	ere	ere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	flee	flee	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	From	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Thou | the lay and ere |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lay=Product |
| 2 | **flee** | present | we |  |  | our exile's cradle | yet |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from cradle=Initial\_Location |

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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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