Table 3 Vocabulary Distribution

	Nouns	Adjectives	Verbs	Adverbs
	Place,, roses, God, heaven, nature, mountains, seа, waves, country, fields, oats, wheat, kinds, things, cattle, heart, rivers, lakes, flowers, sorts, shapes, smells, colours, ditches primroses	Whole, wild, beautiful, fine, good,	Id love to have, swimming; rushing, going, would do, to see, springing up,	even
	God, snap, fingers, learning atheists, the cobbles, priest, hell, conscience, person, Universe, sun	Afraid, bad	saying, wouldnt give, go, create, call, go, wash off, go howling, dying, know, was, made, dont know, do, might, try to stop, rising	Often, tomorrow
	Sun, day, mouth, kiss, breath, flower, mountain, flowers, womans body, thing, life, pleasure, see, sky	Grey, long, true	Shines, said, were lying, got to propose, gave, lost, liked, saw, understood, felt, knew, could get round, gave, leading, asked, say, wouldnt answer, looked, thinking, didnt know	First, near always, only
	Father, captain, sailors, birds	old	Playing, fly, say stoop, washing up, called
	Sentry, governors house, thing, helmet devil, girls, shawls, combs, auctions, Devil, street, fowl market, donkeys, fellows, cloaks, shade, steps, wheels, carts, bulls, castle, years turbans, kings, shop windows, night, boat	Poor, vague, big, old, handsome, white, little	Roasted, laughing, knows, clucking, slipping, missed	Half-asleep
	Watchman, lamp, torrent, see, sunsets, gardens, street, houses, rosegardens, girl, flower, mountain, rose, hair, wall, breasts, perfume, heart	Serene, awful, deepdown, crimson, glorious, queer, little, pink, blue, yellow	Was, put, used, shall Wear, kissed, thought, asked to ask, to say, Put, drew, could feel, going, will	sometimes

The analysis of these lexemes reveals the author’s precision when he constructed a word-map to render thoughts of a pleasure-seeking woman. Every word employed in this passage is of common use. Very few words could be regarded as elevated (Serene, glorious, perfume). Only four out of 117 nouns are abstract, 113 are class nouns that name objects and natural phenomena. Such usage of nouns provides a good basis for a detailed description of location, given as a chain of reminiscences. 28 adjectives that render colour and suggest assessment add to this detailed presentation of Molly’s bright and perfumed Paradise. 83 verbs of the passage could be classified as verbs of action, verbs of speaking, and verbs of sense perception. They are used to construct a sort of a narrative chain (Marion recollects how Leopold Bloom proposed to her), a dynamic mental description, and constant Marion’s evaluation of the past events. Present and past participles render the dynamic changes in the stream of recollection, while modal verbs help to present Marion’s assessment of the events and location.

Semantics of the lexemes could be regarded as a set of opposites. The analysis reveals that a Paradise-like scene is described with the help of the lexemes whose kernel semes are those of beauty, pleasure, good and love (parts 1,3,6). These semes are opposed to the semes of indignation (part 2) and “down-to-earthiness” (part 4). Semantics of vocabulary in part 4 renders both dynamic and sleepy atmosphere of Gibraltar.

Thus the analysis at the word level helped to distinguish a number of lexical “devices” that Joyce employed to render the stream of consciousness of a pleasure-seeking woman who recollects best moments of her life.

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