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title: Sudden to Felim’s seat a woman rushed, An ancient nurse with wrinkle… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sudden to Felim’s seat a woman rushed, An ancient nurse with wrinkled face and worn Clamouring, her hands upheld and forehead flushed, ‘Felim, rejoice! for lo, thy babe is born! Who acts: hands. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Op
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 76

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Sudden to Felim’s seat a woman rushed, An ancient nurse with wrinkled face and worn Clamouring, her hands upheld and forehead flushed, ‘Felim, rejoice! for lo, thy babe is born!

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**Who acts:** hands · **What happens:** rush, wrinkle, uphold, flush, rejoice, bear · **To what, where:** woman, forehead, Felim, babe

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands), 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:pg78491:2:81
# text = Sudden to Felim’s seat a woman rushed, An ancient nurse with wrinkled face and worn Clamouring, her hands upheld and forehead flushed, ‘Felim, rejoice! for lo, thy babe is born!
1	Sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	Felim	Felim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	worn	worn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Clamouring	Clamouring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	upheld	uphold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	flushed	flush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Felim	Felim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
32	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
33	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	38	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	babe	babe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | participle |  | a woman and a ancient nurse with wrinkled face and worn Clamouring *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wrinkle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **uphold** | past | Felim's hands | forehead |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **flush** | participle | Felim's hands *not said here* | Felim |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **rejoice** | present | Felim's hands *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **bear** | present · passive |  | thy babe |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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