--- title: Meave the while, Resting upon those great and growing hosts Her wide… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Meave the while, Resting upon those great and growing hosts Her widening eyes, rejoiced within, and clutched The sceptre-staff with closer grasp, and heaved Higher her solid, broad, imperial breast, Amorous of battle nigh at hand. Who acts: you. 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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 (you), 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:pg78491:11:65 # text = Meave the while, Resting upon those great and growing hosts Her widening eyes, rejoiced within, and clutched The sceptre-staff with closer grasp, and heaved Higher her solid, broad, imperial breast, Amorous of battle nigh at hand. 1 Meave meave VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Resting rest VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 6 upon upon ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 5 obl _ _ 8 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 11 hosts host NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 widening widen VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 amod _ _ 14 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 rejoiced rejoice VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 17 within within ADP IN _ 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 clutched clutch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 21 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 sceptre sceptre NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 closer close ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 amod _ _ 27 grasp grasp NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 heaved heave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 31 Higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 nsubj _ _ 32 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 broad broad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 imperial imperial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 breast breast NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 Amorous Amorous PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 nigh nigh ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 44 at at ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meave** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | while | | tree rules | | 2 | **rest** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | those | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon that=Location | | 3 | **grow** | gerund | you *not said here* | hosts and Queen's widening eyes | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location host=Theme | | 4 | **widen** | gerund | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **rejoice** | participle | | hosts and Queen's widening eyes *not said here* | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **clutch** | past | | the sceptre staff | | | | with closer grasp | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Theme | | 7 | **heave** | past | | | | | | | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/64/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/)