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title: Silent stood At noon the hunter on a jutting crag: His eye upon a to… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Silent stood At noon the hunter on a jutting crag: His eye upon a tower-crowned island fell; Thereon it fastened, bound as by a spell. Who acts: Silent, eye. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tr
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 17

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Silent stood At noon the hunter on a jutting crag: His eye upon a tower-crowned island fell; Thereon it fastened, bound as by a spell.

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**Who acts:** Silent, eye · **What happens:** stand, jut, crown, fall, fasten, bind · **To what, where:** hunter, jutting crag

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Silent, eye), 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:pg78491:4:17
# text = Silent stood At noon the hunter on a jutting crag: His eye upon a tower-crowned island fell; Thereon it fastened, bound as by a spell.
1	Silent	Silent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	jutting	jut	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	crag	crag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	crowned	crown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
20	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	Thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	ccomp	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Silent | the hunter |  | a jutting crag | noon |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hunter=Theme on crag=Destination |
| 2 | **jut** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **crown** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | tower *compound* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fall** | past | Silent's eye upon a crowned island | a jutting crag *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient crag=Result |
| 5 | **fasten** | past | eye |  |  |  |  | thereon *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **bind** | participle | eye *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a spell | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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