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title: They in youth Were friends: to slay that friend will lay a hand Icy… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: They in youth Were friends: to slay that friend will lay a hand Icy as death upon Cuchullain’s heart. Who acts: friend. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12, 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 12, sentence 70

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They in youth Were friends: to slay that friend will lay a hand Icy as death upon Cuchullain’s heart.

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**Who acts:** friend · **What happens:** slay, lay · **To what, where:** hand, heart, Were friends

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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:pg78491:12:72
# text = They in youth Were friends: to slay that friend will lay a hand Icy as death upon Cuchullain’s heart.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	Were	were	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	slay	slay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	Icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	case	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lay** | future | that friend | a hand |  | Cuchullain's heart |  | icy death | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon heart=Destination |

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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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