The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 88
That night physicians five Were bending o’er his bed: the eldest spake; ‘Ketherne, thou son of Fintan, thou must die!’
Who acts: night physicians, thou · What happens: bend, son, die
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 (night physicians, thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 physicians | compound |
| 3 | physicians | physician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bending | nsubj |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 physicians | flat |
| 5 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bending | aux |
| 6 | bending | bend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | o’er | o'er | ADP | _ | 9 bed | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bed | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bending | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 spake | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spake | det |
| 12 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 spake | amod |
| 13 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bending | parataxis |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ketherne | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ketherne | punct |
| 16 | Ketherne | Ketherne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 spake | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 son | punct |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 son | nsubj |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Ketherne | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Fintan | case |
| 21 | Fintan | Fintan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 die | punct |
| 23 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 die | nsubj |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 die | aux |
| 25 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 Ketherne | flat |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ketherne | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past · progressive | night physicians | o'er Fuad's bed; the eldest spake parataxis | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | son | thou | of Fintan | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | die | must | thou | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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.
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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