--- title: Naisi, meantime, and Deirdré, fixed, attent, Their eyes in stillness… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Naisi, meantime, and Deirdré, fixed, attent, Their eyes in stillness on the ivory board, And silent o’er their game the brothers bent; But Fergus’ sons stood up with hand on sword, Forth from the casement gazing; and the red Burned on their brows: then Deirdré, careless, said, Who acts: brothers, Na --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/6/86/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/6/) / 86 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 86 Naisi, meantime, and Deirdré, fixed, attent, Their eyes in stillness on the ivory board, And silent o’er their game the brothers bent; But Fergus’ sons stood up with hand on sword, Forth from the casement gazing; and the red Burned on their brows: then Deirdré, careless, said, **Who acts:** brothers, Naisi, casement, red · **What happens:** fix, bend, stand up, gaze, burn, say · **To what, where:** Deirdré, game, sword, red, brows · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (brothers, Naisi, casement, red), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:6:87 # text = Naisi, meantime, and Deirdré, fixed, attent, Their eyes in stillness on the ivory board, And silent o’er their game the brothers bent; But Fergus’ sons stood up with hand on sword, Forth from the casement gazing; and the red Burned on their brows: then Deirdré, careless, said, 1 Naisi Naisi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 meantime meantime NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 Deirdré Deirdré PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 attent attent NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 list _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 stillness stillness NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 ivory ivory NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 And and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 23 o’er o'er ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 bent bend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 30 But but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 Fergus Fergus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’ 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 Forth forth ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 42 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 casement casement NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 parataxis _ _ 45 gazing gaze VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 44 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ; ; PUNCT : _ 60 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 60 nsubj _ _ 50 Burned burn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 49 acl _ _ 51 on on ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 brows brow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 : : PUNCT : _ 56 punct _ _ 55 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 56 advmod _ _ 56 Deirdré Deirdré PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 58 careless careless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 60 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fix** | participle | | Deirdré *not said here* | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **bend** | past | the brothers | riven's game *not said here* | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent game=Material | | 3 | **stand up** | past | Naisi attent and Deirdré and riven's eyes in stillness on the ivory board | | | sword | | with hand; Fergus's sons *nsubj*; the casement *parataxis* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sword=Location | | 4 | **gaze** | gerund | the casement *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **burn** | participle | | the red *not said here* | | riven's brows Deirdré | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on brow=Location | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the red | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/6/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/6/87/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/6/)