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title: Upon that sanguine shroud as on a sign Deirdré gazed long; then turn… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon that sanguine shroud as on a sign Deirdré gazed long; then turned her eyes, and spake; ‘True counsel, lo! 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 clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 33

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Upon that sanguine shroud as on a sign Deirdré gazed long; then turned her eyes, and spake; ‘True counsel, lo!

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**What happens:** gaze, turn · **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: 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:pg78491:6:34
# text = Upon that sanguine shroud as on a sign Deirdré gazed long; then turned her eyes, and spake; ‘True counsel, lo!
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	sanguine	sanguine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shroud	shroud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upon that sanguine shroud as a sign; True counsel *parataxis*; long *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon shroud=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | past |  | edge's eyes |  |  | then | spake *obl* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=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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