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title: Through his brain Shivered their shrouded lustre; through his blood:… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and ot
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 71

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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.

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**Who acts:** brain · **What happens:** shiver, shroud, drink up · **To what, where:** shrouded lustre, brain

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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 (brain), 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:pg78491:13:73
# text = 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.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
4	Shivered	shiver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	shrouded	shroud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	lustre	lustre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	sanguine	sanguine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	currents	current	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sympathies	sympathy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
27	unused	unused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
29	Drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	34	advmod	_	_
33	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
39	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
40	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
42	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	eclipse	eclipse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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