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title: Tearful she turned On him those luminaries of love and death, Her ey… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tearful she turned On him those luminaries of love and death, Her eyes, like stars in midnight waters glassed; Turned them, but spake no longer. Who acts: Tearful. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13, with its depend
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 70

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Tearful she turned On him those luminaries of love and death, Her eyes, like stars in midnight waters glassed; Turned them, but spake no longer.

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**Who acts:** Tearful · **What happens:** turn, glass · **To what, where:** luminaries, midnight waters

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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 (Tearful), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:13:72
# text = Tearful she turned On him those luminaries of love and death, Her eyes, like stars in midnight waters glassed; Turned them, but spake no longer.
1	Tearful	tearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	luminaries	luminary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	glassed	glass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	spake	speak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
28	no	no	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | Tearful | that luminaries of love and death and smile's eyes and stars in midnight waters |  |  |  | on Cuchullain; smile *nsubj* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent luminary=Theme |
| 2 | **glass** | participle |  | midnight waters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **turn** | past | Tearful *not said here* | luminaries *= luminary* |  |  |  | speak *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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.

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**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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