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title: Deirdré and he were playing chess together:[15] Their bent heads wel… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Deirdré and he were playing chess together:[15] Their bent heads well nigh met above the board; While sunny gleams of that unclouded weather Glancing through boughs the chequered ivory scored. Who acts: Naisi, Deirdré, sunny gleams. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Irela
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 54

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Deirdré and he were playing chess together:\[15\] Their bent heads well nigh met above the board; While sunny gleams of that unclouded weather Glancing through boughs the chequered ivory scored.

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**Who acts:** Naisi, Deirdré, sunny gleams · **What happens:** play, meet, uncloud, glance, chequer, score · **To what, where:** chess, sunny gleams, board, chequered ivory

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Naisi, Deirdré, sunny gleams), 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:pg78491:5:54
# text = Deirdré and he were playing chess together:[15] Their bent heads well nigh met above the board; While sunny gleams of that unclouded weather Glancing through boughs the chequered ivory scored.
1	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
6	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bent	bent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
16	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
18	above	above	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	gleams	gleam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
27	unclouded	uncloud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	Glancing	glance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
30	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	chequered	chequer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
35	scored	score	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past · progressive | Naisi | chess |  |  |  | together *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chess=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | participle | Deirdré | sunny gleams of that unclouded weather |  | the board |  | tents's bent heads *nsubj*; nigh, well *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **uncloud** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **glance** | gerund | sunny gleams of that unclouded weather *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through boughs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through bough=Theme |
| 5 | **chequer** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **score** | participle |  | the chequered ivory *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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