--- title: That self-same hour Old Cathbad entered, and his Druid clan, And spa… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: That self-same hour Old Cathbad entered, and his Druid clan, And spake; “King Conor! by my bed last night Great Macha stood, the worship of our race, Our strength in realms unseen. Who acts: Old Cathbad, King Conor, race, our. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old Cathbad, King Conor, race, our), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:11:194 # text = That self-same hour Old Cathbad entered, and his Druid clan, And spake; “King Conor! by my bed last night Great Macha stood, the worship of our race, Our strength in realms unseen. 1 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 2 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Cathbad Cathbad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 Druid druid NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 clan clan NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 And and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 spake speak NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 18 “ " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Conor Conor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ! ! PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 25 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 Great Great PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ _ 28 Macha Macha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 29 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 worship worship NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 Our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 realms realm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 41 unseen unseen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enter** | past | Old Cathbad | Cathbad's Druid clan | | | | spake *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stand** *in a quote* | past | King Conor by my bed last night and Great Macha | the worship of our race | | | | Our strength in realms *obl* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **worship** *in a quote* | | our race | | | | | | nom worship «act intransitive»: of=agent | | 4 | **race** *in a quote* | | our | | | | | | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 191](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/191/) - next →: [sentence 193](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/193/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/)