The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 33
Upon that sanguine shroud as on a sign Deirdré gazed long; then turned her eyes, and spake; ‘True counsel, lo!
What happens: gaze, turn · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 shroud | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 shroud | det |
| 3 | sanguine | sanguine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shroud | amod |
| 4 | shroud | shroud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gazed | obl |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 sign | case |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 sign | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sign | det |
| 8 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shroud | nmod |
| 9 | Deirdré | Deirdré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sign | appos |
| 10 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gazed | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 turned | advmod |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gazed | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 turned | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spake | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 spake | cc |
| 19 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 counsel | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 counsel | punct |
| 22 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 counsel | amod |
| 23 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gazed | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lo | punct |
| 25 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 23 counsel | discourse |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | upon that sanguine shroud as a sign; True counsel parataxis; long property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon shroud=Theme | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | edge's eyes | then | spake obl | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
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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