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title: ‘For, not alone who wrought that deed accursed, Slaying those Three,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘For, not alone who wrought that deed accursed, Slaying those Three, should perish by this hand, But they the impious deed who counselled, first; And, next the man who issued that command!’ Who acts: Cuchullain, man. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age»
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 35

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‘For, not alone who wrought that deed accursed, Slaying those Three, should perish by this hand, But they the impious deed who counselled, first; And, next the man who issued that command!’

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**Who acts:** Cuchullain, man · **What happens:** accurs, slay, perish, counsell, issue · **To what, where:** that, Three, command

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cuchullain, man), 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:pg78491:5:35
# text = ‘For, not alone who wrought that deed accursed, Slaying those Three, should perish by this hand, But they the impious deed who counselled, first; And, next the man who issued that command!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	deed	dee	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	accursed	accurs	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Slaying	slay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	perish	perish	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	impious	impious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	counselled	counsell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
32	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	next	next	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
37	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	issued	issue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
40	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accurs** | past · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **slay** | gerund |  | that Three |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Patient |
| 3 | **perish** | should |  |  |  |  |  | by this hand; next the man | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **counsell** | past | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  | the impious deed *nsubj*; who *nsubj*; first *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **issue** | past | the man | that command |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location command=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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