The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 71
But Deirdré at the grave-head stood alone, The surging crowd held back by holy dread; Her face was white as monumental stone; Her hands, her garb, from throat to foot were red With blood--their blood.
Who acts: Deirdré, face, hands · What happens: stand, surge, hold back, be · To what, where: surging crowd
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Deirdré, face, hands), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 stood | cc |
| 2 | Deirdré | Deirdré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 head | det |
| 5 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 head | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 grave | punct |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Deirdré | nmod |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 stood | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crowd | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crowd | det |
| 12 | surging | surge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 crowd | amod |
| 13 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 crowd | acl |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 held | advmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 dread | case |
| 17 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dread | amod |
| 18 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 white | punct |
| 20 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 face | nmod:poss |
| 21 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 white | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 white | cop |
| 23 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stood | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 stone | case |
| 25 | monumental | monumental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 stone | amod |
| 26 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 white | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 hands | punct |
| 28 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hands | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 red | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 garb | punct |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 garb | nmod:poss |
| 32 | garb | garb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hands | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 throat | punct |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 throat | case |
| 35 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hands | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 foot | case |
| 37 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 throat | nmod |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 red | cop |
| 39 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stood | parataxis |
| 40 | With | with | ADP | _ | 41 blood | case |
| 41 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 red | obl |
| 42 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 44 blood | punct |
| 43 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 blood | nmod:poss |
| 44 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 blood | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Deirdré at the grave head | the surging crowd | alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | surge | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | hold back | participle | the surging crowd not said here | by holy dread | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by dread=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Deirdré's face | as monumental stone; white property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Deirdré's hands and Deirdré's garb and throat to foot | with blood and Bonachts's blood; red 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.
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