--- title: A home for Spirits, not home for man, it seemed; Or Limbo meet for b… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: A home for Spirits, not home for man, it seemed; Or Limbo meet for body-waiting Souls-- Of such in Pagan times the poets dreamed-- That stillness which invests the unmoving poles Above it brooded. Who acts: home, Limbo, stillness. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (home, Limbo, stillness), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:10:50 # text = A home for Spirits, not home for man, it seemed; Or Limbo meet for body-waiting Souls-- Of such in Pagan times the poets dreamed-- That stillness which invests the unmoving poles Above it brooded. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Spirits spirit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 home home ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 Or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 Limbo Limbo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 meet meet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 amod _ _ 21 Souls soul NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 -- -- PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 Of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 Pagan Pagan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 poets poet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 dreamed dream VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 -- -- PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 33 stillness stillness NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 invests invest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 unmoving unmoving ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 poles pole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 39 Above above ADP IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 brooded brood VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | past | a home for Spirits and man | | | | | it *nsubj* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **meet** | present | Limbo | | | | time | for waiting Souls | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wait** | gerund | | | | | | body *compound* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **dream** | participle | | the poets and that stillness *not said here* | | | | | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **invest** | present | that stillness | the unmoving poles | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pole=Goal | | 6 | **brood** | past | Home | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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. - ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/10/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/10/51/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/10/)