The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 46
Long summer eves he stands, Or paces stately up the mead and down Eyeing the racing youths, or glad at heart Listening the music.’
Who acts: Long summer eves, heart · What happens: stand, pace, eye, listen · To what, where: mead, racing youths, music
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Long summer eves, heart), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eves | amod |
| 2 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eves | compound |
| 3 | eves | eve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stands | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stands | nsubj |
| 5 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 paces | punct |
| 7 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 paces | cc |
| 8 | paces | pace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stands | conj |
| 9 | stately | stately | ADV | _ | 8 paces | advmod |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 mead | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mead | det |
| 12 | mead | mead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 paces | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Eyeing | cc |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 Eyeing | advmod |
| 15 | Eyeing | eye | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 mead | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 youths | det |
| 17 | racing | racing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 youths | compound |
| 18 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Eyeing | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 glad | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 glad | cc |
| 21 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stands | parataxis |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 heart | case |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 glad | obl |
| 24 | Listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 heart | acl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 music | det |
| 26 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Listening | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 glad | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | Long summer eves | Donn nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pace | present | Long summer eves not said here | the mead | stately property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up mead=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | eye | gerund | Long summer eves not said here | the racing youths | down property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | listen | gerund | heart not said here | the music | tree rules |
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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