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title: The hand that strikes in daylight I defy; If traitor’s knife attempt… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The hand that strikes in daylight I defy; If traitor’s knife attempts them, for that shame All Uladh’s race shall perish, save alone The stained, yet guiltless king on Uladh’s throne!’ Who acts: hand, I, knife, race. 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 40

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The hand that strikes in daylight I defy; If traitor’s knife attempts them, for that shame All Uladh’s race shall perish, save alone The stained, yet guiltless king on Uladh’s throne!’

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**Who acts:** hand, I, knife, race, Uladh · **What happens:** strike, defy, attempt, perish, save, stain · **To what, where:** daylight, sons

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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 (hand, I, knife, race), 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:pg78491:5:40
# text = The hand that strikes in daylight I defy; If traitor’s knife attempts them, for that shame All Uladh’s race shall perish, save alone The stained, yet guiltless king on Uladh’s throne!’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	strikes	strike	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	defy	defy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	traitor	traitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	attempts	attempt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
20	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	stained	stain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	guiltless	guiltless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’s	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | present | the hand |  |  | daylight |  | that *nsubj*; guiltless king on Uladh's throne *parataxis* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in daylight=Location |
| 2 | **defy** | present | I | daylight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **attempt** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | traitor's knife | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
| 4 | **perish** | shall | all Uladh's race |  |  |  |  | for that shame | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **save** | infinitive | all Uladh's race *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **stain** | participle | all Uladh's race *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **race** |  | all Uladh |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: 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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