--- title: Meantime the queen, ere dawned that ninetieth morn, Mused, ill at ea… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Meantime the queen, ere dawned that ninetieth morn, Mused, ill at ease; ‘Daily my people die, And many a stormy brow on me is bent:-- What if they turn on me like starving hounds That rend their huntsman?’ Who acts: Meantime queen, Daily people, people, That. 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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 (Meantime queen, Daily people, people, That), 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:pg78491:13:11 # text = Meantime the queen, ere dawned that ninetieth morn, Mused, ill at ease; ‘Daily my people die, And many a stormy brow on me is bent:-- What if they turn on me like starving hounds That rend their huntsman?’ 1 Meantime meantime NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 ere ere ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 dawned dawn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 ninetieth ninetieth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 morn morn NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Mused muse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 ease ease NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Daily daily ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 23 And and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 24 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 stormy stormy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 brow brow NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nmod _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 bent bend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 -- -- PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 37 obj _ _ 35 if if SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 40 like like SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 41 starving starve VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 advcl _ _ 42 hounds hound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 43 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 44 nsubj _ _ 44 rend rend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 parataxis _ _ 45 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 huntsman huntsman NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dawn** | participle | the Meantime queen *not said here* | ninetieth morn | | | | ere *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **muse** | participle | | ninetieth morn *not said here* | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **die** | present | my Daily people | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **bend** | present · passive | | many | | | | a stormy brow on me *nsubj:pass* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material | | 5 | **turn** | present | people | the Meantime queen | | | | on me | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme | | 6 | **starve** | gerund | people *not said here* | hounds | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **rend** | present | That | people's huntsman | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huntsman=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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/10/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/)