The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 71
Through his brain Shivered their shrouded lustre; through his blood: The sanguine currents from the warrior’s heart Long sad, to female sympathies unused, Drank up at once that splendour, and the tears That splendour’s strange eclipse.
Who acts: brain · What happens: shiver, shroud, drink up · To what, where: shrouded lustre, brain
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brain), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 3 brain | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brain | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Drank | obl |
| 4 | Shivered | shiver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 brain | acl |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lustre | nmod:poss |
| 6 | shrouded | shroud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 lustre | amod |
| 7 | lustre | lustre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Shivered | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 blood | punct |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 blood | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 blood | nmod:poss |
| 11 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brain | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 currents | punct |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 currents | det |
| 14 | sanguine | sanguine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 currents | compound |
| 15 | currents | current | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brain | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 warrior | det |
| 18 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 warrior | case |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 currents | nmod |
| 21 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sad | amod |
| 22 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 currents | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sympathies | punct |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 sympathies | case |
| 25 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sympathies | amod |
| 26 | sympathies | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 currents | conj |
| 27 | unused | unused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sympathies | amod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brain | punct |
| 29 | Drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 Drank | compound:prt |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 splendour | case |
| 32 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 34 splendour | advmod |
| 33 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 splendour | det |
| 34 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Drank | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 ’s | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 ’s | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 tears | det |
| 38 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 ’s | nsubj |
| 39 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 splendour | det |
| 40 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 tears | nmod:unmarked |
| 41 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 Drank | conj |
| 42 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 eclipse | amod |
| 43 | eclipse | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ’s | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 Drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shiver | participle | Cuchullain's brain and Cuchullain's blood and the sanguine currents from the warrior's heart and female sympathies not said here | brain's shrouded lustre | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shroud | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | drink up | past | Cuchullain's brain and Cuchullain's blood and the sanguine currents from the warrior's heart and female sympathies | at that splendour | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
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