--- title: Keen-eyed as ocean bird That, high in sunshine poised, glimpses his… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Keen-eyed as ocean bird That, high in sunshine poised, glimpses his prey Beneath the wave, and downward swooping slays him, Each watched the other’s movements, if an arm Lifted too high, or buckler dropp’d too low Left bare a rivet. Who acts: downward swooping, Each, arm, buckler dropp. A sentence o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/133/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/) / 133 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 133 Keen-eyed as ocean bird That, high in sunshine poised, glimpses his prey Beneath the wave, and downward swooping slays him, Each watched the other’s movements, if an arm Lifted too high, or buckler dropp’d too low Left bare a rivet. **Who acts:** downward swooping, Each, arm, buckler dropp · **What happens:** poise, glimpse, slay, watch, lift, have · **To what, where:** sunshine, prey, bird, movements, rivet This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (downward swooping, Each, arm, buckler dropp), 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:pg78491:13:135 # text = Keen-eyed as ocean bird That, high in sunshine poised, glimpses his prey Beneath the wave, and downward swooping slays him, Each watched the other’s movements, if an arm Lifted too high, or buckler dropp’d too low Left bare a rivet. 1 Keen keen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 eyed eyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 poised poise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 glimpses glimpse VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 Beneath beneath ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 wave wave NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 downward downward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 swooping swooping NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 slays slay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 28 nsubj _ _ 28 watched watch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ’s 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 movements movement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 if if SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 Lifted lift VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 conj _ _ 38 too too ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 or or CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 buckler buckler NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 dropp dropp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’d have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 45 too too ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 Left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 advcl _ _ 48 bare bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 ccomp _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 rivet rivet NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **poise** | participle | | sunshine *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **glimpse** | present | | bird's prey | | | | beneath the wave | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prey=Stimulus | | 3 | **slay** | present | downward swooping | bird | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 4 | **watch** | past | Each | the other's movements | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme | | 5 | **lift** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | a arm | | | | | high *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **have** | past | buckler dropp | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **leave** | participle | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **bear** | infinitive | buckler dropp *not said here* | a rivet | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rivet=Patient | 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 132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/132/) - next →: [sentence 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/134/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/)