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title: In turn the second,--‘Ketherne, thou must die:’ And Ketherne slew him. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In turn the second,--‘Ketherne, thou must die:’ And Ketherne slew him. Who acts: 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 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 14, sentence 90

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In turn the second,--‘Ketherne, thou must die:’ And Ketherne slew him.

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**Who acts:** thou, ’ · **What happens:** die, slay · **To what, where:** Fuad

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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 (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:pg78491:14:92
# text = In turn the second,--‘Ketherne, thou must die:’ And Ketherne slew him.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Ketherne	Ketherne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Ketherne	Ketherne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | must | thou |  |  |  |  | in turn and Ketherne | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in turn=Attribute |
| 2 | **slay** | past | ’ and Ketherne | Fuad |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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