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title: Slay them in mountain hold and forest lair In vale and glen: slay ea… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Slay them in mountain hold and forest lair In vale and glen: slay each apart, half-armed; Easy the task!’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 48

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Slay them in mountain hold and forest lair In vale and glen: slay each apart, half-armed; Easy the task!’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** slay, hold · **To what, where:** Touches, forest lair, mountain, each

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg78491:14:50
# text = Slay them in mountain hold and forest lair In vale and glen: slay each apart, half-armed; Easy the task!’
1	Slay	slay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	lair	lair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	In	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	vale	vale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	glen	glen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	slay	slay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Easy	Easy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** | imperative | you *not said here* | Touches *= touch* |  |  |  | Easy *obl* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **hold** | present |  | forest lair |  | mountain |  | in vale and glen | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lair=Theme in mountain=Location |
| 3 | **slay** | infinitive | you *not said here* | each |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=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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