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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 30

A nation round their monarch’s gateway stood: All day there stood they, whispering in great dread: The herald came at last--‘The Queen is dead!’

Who acts: nation, day, herald, Queen · What happens: stand, whisper, come, be · To what, where: methinks, great dread, last

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nation, day, herald, Queen), 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

detnsubjcasenmod:possnmod:posscasenmodpunctdetnsubjadvmodconjobjpunctadvclcaseamodoblpunctdetnsubjparataxiscaseoblpunctpunctdetnsubjcopadvclpunctpunctrootADETnationNOUNroundADPtheirPRONmonarchNOUN’sPARTgatewayNOUNstoodVERB:PUNCTAllDETdayNOUNthereADVstoodVERBtheyPRON,PUNCTwhisperingVERBinADPgreatADJdreadNOUN:PUNCTTheDETheraldNOUNcameVERBatADPlastADJ--PUNCT‘PUNCTTheDETQueenPROPNisAUXdeadADJ!PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art2 nationdet
2nationnationNOUNNumber=Sing8 stoodnsubj
3roundroundADP_7 gatewaycase
4theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 monarchnmod:poss
5monarchmonarchNOUNNumber=Sing7 gatewaynmod:poss
6’s'sPART_5 monarchcase
7gatewaygatewayNOUNNumber=Sing2 nationnmod
8stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9::PUNCT_13 stoodpunct
10AllallDETPronType=Tot11 daydet
11daydayNOUNNumber=Sing13 stoodnsubj
12therethereADVPronType=Dem11 dayadvmod
13stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 stoodconj
14theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs13 stoodobj
15,,PUNCT_16 whisperingpunct
16whisperingwhisperVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part13 stoodadvcl
17ininADP_19 dreadcase
18greatgreatADJDegree=Pos19 dreadamod
19dreaddreadNOUNNumber=Sing16 whisperingobl
20::PUNCT_23 camepunct
21ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 heralddet
22heraldheraldNOUNNumber=Sing23 camensubj
23camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 stoodparataxis
24atatADP_25 lastcase
25lastlastADJDegree=Pos23 cameobl
26----PUNCT_31 deadpunct
27‘'PUNCT_31 deadpunct
28ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 Queendet
29QueenQueenPROPNNumber=Sing31 deadnsubj
30isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin31 deadcop
31deaddeadADJDegree=Pos23 cameadvcl
32!!PUNCT_31 deadpunct
33’'PUNCT_23 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1standpasta nation round methinks's monarch's gatewayvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2standpastall daymethinks = methinkvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3whisper speech: assertgerundall day not said heregreat dreadvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dread=Location
4comepastthe heraldlastvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
5ispresentthe Queendead propertytree 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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