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title: But Deirdré at the grave-head stood alone, The surging crowd held ba… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Deirdré at the grave-head stood alone, The surging crowd held back by holy dread; Her face was white as monumental stone; Her hands, her garb, from throat to foot were red With blood--their blood. Who acts: Deirdré, face, hands. 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 7, sentence 71

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But Deirdré at the grave-head stood alone, The surging crowd held back by holy dread; Her face was white as monumental stone; Her hands, her garb, from throat to foot were red With blood--their blood.

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**Who acts:** Deirdré, face, hands · **What happens:** stand, surge, hold back, be · **To what, where:** surging crowd

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Deirdré, face, 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:pg78491:7:71
# text = But Deirdré at the grave-head stood alone, The surging crowd held back by holy dread; Her face was white as monumental stone; Her hands, her garb, from throat to foot were red With blood--their blood.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	surging	surge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	monumental	monumental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
28	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	garb	garb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
40	With	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Deirdré at the grave head | the surging crowd |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **surge** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hold back** | participle |  | the surging crowd *not said here* |  |  |  | by holy dread | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by dread=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | Deirdré's face |  |  |  |  | as monumental stone; white *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | Deirdré's hands and Deirdré's garb and throat to foot |  |  |  |  | with blood and Bonachts's blood; red *property* | 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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