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title: But Deirdré slowly lifting eyes divine, Dewed with dark tears, upon… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Deirdré slowly lifting eyes divine, Dewed with dark tears, upon the Brothers, spake; ‘True counsel, lo! Who acts: Deirdré. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 18

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But Deirdré slowly lifting eyes divine, Dewed with dark tears, upon the Brothers, spake; ‘True counsel, lo!

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**Who acts:** Deirdré · **What happens:** lift, dew · **To what, where:** eyes

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Deirdré), 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:pg78491:6:19
# text = But Deirdré slowly lifting eyes divine, Dewed with dark tears, upon the Brothers, spake; ‘True counsel, lo!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Dewed	dew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Brothers	Brother	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | gerund | Deirdré | eyes |  |  |  | divine, slowly *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 2 | **dew** | participle | Deirdré *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with dark tears upon the Brothers; True counsel *obl:agent* | tree rules |

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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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