--- title: A nation round their monarch’s gateway stood: All day there stood th… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: A nation round their monarch’s gateway stood: All day there stood they, whispering in great dread: The herald came at last--‘The Queen is dead!’ Who acts: nation, day, herald, Queen. 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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 (nation, day, herald, Queen), 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:pg78491:8:30 # text = A nation round their monarch’s gateway stood: All day there stood they, whispering in great dread: The herald came at last--‘The Queen is dead!’ 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 nation nation NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 round round ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 monarch monarch NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’s 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 gateway gateway NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 8 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 13 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 whispering whisper VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 dread dread NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 herald herald NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 -- -- PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ! ! PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | a nation round methinks's monarch's gateway | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stand** | past | all day | methinks *= methink* | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 3 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | gerund | all day *not said here* | | | great dread | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dread=Location | | 4 | **come** | past | the herald | | | last | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | | 5 | **is** | present | the Queen | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/31/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/)