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title: ‘King, thou, and I, and Usnach’s sons must die-- What matters when,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘King, thou, and I, and Usnach’s sons must die-- What matters when, if spotless our good name? Who acts: sons, King, our. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 5, 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 5, sentence 39

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‘King, thou, and I, and Usnach’s sons must die-- What matters when, if spotless our good name?

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**Who acts:** sons, King, our · **What happens:** die, matter, name

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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 (sons, King, our), 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:pg78491:5:39
# text = ‘King, thou, and I, and Usnach’s sons must die-- What matters when, if spotless our good name?
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	King	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	Usnach	Usnach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
17	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	spotless	spotless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | must | Usnach's sons |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **matter** | present | King  thou  I |  |  |  |  | What *nsubj*; spotless *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **name** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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