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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 18

Neighing steeds Dinned the still air; while here at times was heard Whistling of him that fixed his tent, and there Wood-cleaving axe or feaster’s laugh mistimed.

Who acts: Neighing steeds, Whistling, Wood, laugh, axe · What happens: neigh, din, hear, fix, cleave, mistime · To what, where: air, Whistling, tent

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Neighing steeds, Whistling, Wood, laugh), 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

amodnsubjdetadvmodobjpunctmarkparataxiscaseoblaux:passparataxisobjcasenmodnsubjacl:relclnmod:possobjpunctccexplnsubjpunctadvclnmod:possccconjcasensubjccomppunctrootNeighingVERBsteedsNOUNDinnedVERBtheDETstillADVairNOUN;PUNCTwhileSCONJhereADVatADPtimesNOUNwasAUXheardVERBWhistlingPROPNofADPhimPRONthatPRONfixedVERBhisPRONtentNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtherePRONWoodPROPN-PUNCTcleavingVERBaxeNOUNorCCONJfeasterNOUN’sPARTlaughNOUNmistimedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NeighingneighVERBVerbForm=Ger2 steedsamod
2steedssteedNOUNNumber=Plur3 Dinnednsubj
3DinneddinVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 airdet
5stillstillADV_6 airadvmod
6airairNOUNNumber=Sing3 Dinnedobj
7;;PUNCT_13 heardpunct
8whilewhileSCONJ_9 heremark
9herehereADVPronType=Dem13 heardparataxis
10atatADP_11 timescase
11timestimeNOUNNumber=Plur9 hereobl
12wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 heardaux:pass
13heardhearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 Dinnedparataxis
14WhistlingWhistlingPROPNNumber=Sing13 heardobj
15ofofADP_16 himcase
16himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 Whistlingnmod
17thatthatPRONPronType=Rel18 fixednsubj
18fixedfixVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 Whistlingacl:relcl
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 tentnmod:poss
20tenttentNOUNNumber=Sing18 fixedobj
21,,PUNCT_26 cleavingpunct
22andandCCONJ_26 cleavingcc
23theretherePRONPronType=Dem24 Woodexpl
24WoodWoodPROPNNumber=Sing26 cleavingnsubj
25--PUNCT_24 Woodpunct
26cleavingcleaveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 Dinnedadvcl
27axeaxeNOUNNumber=Sing31 laughnmod:poss
28ororCCONJ_29 feastercc
29feasterfeasterNOUNNumber=Sing27 axeconj
30’s'sPART_27 axecase
31laughlaughNOUNNumber=Sing32 mistimednsubj
32mistimedmistimeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 cleavingccomp
33..PUNCT_3 Dinnedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1neighgerundvn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2dinpastNeighing steedsthe airtree rules
3hearpast · passiveWhistling of Whistlingvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: whistling=Stimulus
4fixpastWhistling of WhistlingWhistling's tentvn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tent=Patient
5cleavegerundWood theretree rules
6mistimepastaxe or feaster's laughvn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7laughaxe or feasternom laugh «communication 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.

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