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title: Neighing steeds Dinned the still air; while here at times was heard… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Neighing steeds Dinned the still air; while here at times was heard Whistling of him that fixed his tent, and there Wood-cleaving axe or feaster’s laugh mistimed. Who acts: Neighing steeds, Whistling, Wood, laugh. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 18

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Neighing steeds Dinned the still air; while here at times was heard Whistling of him that fixed his tent, and there Wood-cleaving axe or feaster’s laugh mistimed.

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**Who acts:** Neighing steeds, Whistling, Wood, laugh, axe · **What happens:** neigh, din, hear, fix, cleave, mistime · **To what, where:** air, Whistling, tent

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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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Neighing steeds, Whistling, Wood, laugh), 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:pg78491:15:20
# text = Neighing steeds Dinned the still air; while here at times was heard Whistling of him that fixed his tent, and there Wood-cleaving axe or feaster’s laugh mistimed.
1	Neighing	neigh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	Dinned	din	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	parataxis	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
14	Whistling	Whistling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	fixed	fix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	Wood	Wood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	cleaving	cleave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
27	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	feaster	feaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
31	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	mistimed	mistime	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **neigh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **din** | past | Neighing steeds | the air |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | past · passive |  | Whistling of Whistling |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: whistling=Stimulus |
| 4 | **fix** | past | Whistling of Whistling | Whistling's tent |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tent=Patient |
| 5 | **cleave** | gerund | Wood  there |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mistime** | past | axe or feaster's laugh |  |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **laugh** |  | axe or feaster |  |  |  |  |  | nom laugh «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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