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title: Long summer eves he stands, Or paces stately up the mead and down Ey… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11, with its depe
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 46

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Long summer eves he stands, Or paces stately up the mead and down Eyeing the racing youths, or glad at heart Listening the music.’

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**Who acts:** Long summer eves, heart · **What happens:** stand, pace, eye, listen · **To what, where:** mead, racing youths, music

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:11:48
# text = Long summer eves he stands, Or paces stately up the mead and down Eyeing the racing youths, or glad at heart Listening the music.’
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	eves	eve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	paces	pace	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	stately	stately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mead	mead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	Eyeing	eye	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	racing	racing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	Listening	listen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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