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title: That night physicians five Were bending o’er his bed: the eldest spa… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree a
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 88

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That night physicians five Were bending o’er his bed: the eldest spake; ‘Ketherne, thou son of Fintan, thou must die!’

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**Who acts:** night physicians, thou · **What happens:** bend, son, die

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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 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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:14:90
# text = That night physicians five Were bending o’er his bed: the eldest spake; ‘Ketherne, thou son of Fintan, thou must die!’
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	physicians	physician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	Were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	o’er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Ketherne	Ketherne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
19	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Fintan	Fintan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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