--- title: While, low-bowed, That concourse gazed upon the reverend dead Behold… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: While, low-bowed, That concourse gazed upon the reverend dead Behold, like changeful shapes in evening cloud, Vanished those time-worn bodies; and, instead, Inwoven lay four children, white and young With silver-lidded eyes and lashes long. Who acts: concourse. 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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 (concourse), 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:pg78491:10:76 # text = While, low-bowed, That concourse gazed upon the reverend dead Behold, like changeful shapes in evening cloud, Vanished those time-worn bodies; and, instead, Inwoven lay four children, white and young With silver-lidded eyes and lashes long. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 bowed bow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 concourse concourse NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 gazed gaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 upon upon ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 reverend reverend NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 14 Behold behold INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 changeful changeful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 Vanished vanish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 24 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 25 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 worn worn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 instead instead ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 Inwoven inweave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ _ 35 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 36 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 conj _ _ 42 With with ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 43 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 lidded lid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 46 amod _ _ 46 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 lashes lash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 conj _ _ 49 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bow** | participle | that concourse *not said here* | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **gaze** | past | that concourse | | | | | upon the reverend; like changeful shapes in evening cloud | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon reverend=Theme | | 3 | **vanish** | past | that concourse *not said here* | that worn bodies | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **inweave** | participle | | | | | | instead *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **lay** | present | that concourse *not said here* | four children | | | | white *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Result | | 6 | **lid** | participle | | | | | | silver *compound* | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/10/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/10/77/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/10/)