--- title: From the bank Meantime, the dark magician, Cailitin, He and his sons… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: From the bank Meantime, the dark magician, Cailitin, He and his sons, with wide and greedy eyes, That still, like one man’s eyes, together moved, Had watched that fight, counting each drop that fell Down from Cuchullain’s wounds. Who acts: warrior, sons, drop, Cuchullain. 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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 (warrior, sons, drop, Cuchullain), 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:pg78491:12:97 # text = From the bank Meantime, the dark magician, Cailitin, He and his sons, with wide and greedy eyes, That still, like one man’s eyes, together moved, Had watched that fight, counting each drop that fell Down from Cuchullain’s wounds. 1 From from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Meantime meantime NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Cailitin Cailitin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 12 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 greedy greedy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 21 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 nsubj _ _ 24 still still ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ’s 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 together together ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 35 Had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 watched watch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 37 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 38 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 advcl _ _ 41 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 42 det _ _ 42 drop drop NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 44 nsubj _ _ 44 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 acl:relcl _ _ 45 Down down ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 46 from from ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 Cuchullain Cuchullain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ’s 's PART POS _ 47 case _ _ 49 wounds wound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **son** | | warrior | | | | | wide eyes *conj*; one man's eyes That *conj* | tree rules | | 2 | **move** | past | | | | | | together *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **watch** | past · perfect | warrior's sons and wide eyes and one man's eyes That | that fight | | the bank Meantime and the dark magician | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Theme | | 4 | **count** | gerund | warrior's sons and wide eyes and one man's eyes That *not said here* | each drop | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Theme | | 5 | **fall down** | past | each drop | | | Cuchullain's wounds | | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from wound=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **wound** | | Cuchullain | | | | | | nom wound «state transitive»: 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 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/96/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/)