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title: Smite first the sons of Usnach, smite the Three!’ — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Smite first the sons of Usnach, smite the Three!’ 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 7, 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 7, sentence 64

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Smite first the sons of Usnach, smite the Three!’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** smite · **To what, where:** sons, Three

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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 7. 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:pg78491:7:64
# text = Smite first the sons of Usnach, smite the Three!’
1	Smite	smite	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Usnach	Usnach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	smite	smite	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite** | imperative | you *not said here* | the sons of Usnach |  |  |  | first *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus son=Experiencer |
| 2 | **smite** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the Three |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus three=Experiencer |

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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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