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title: There once--what time a great sun in decline Had changed to gold the… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There once--what time a great sun in decline Had changed to gold the green back of a wave That showered a pasture fair with diamond brine, Then sank, anon uprising from its grave Went shouldering onward, higher and more high, And hid far lands, and half eclipsed the sky-- Who acts: great sun, wave, 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 4

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There once--what time a great sun in decline Had changed to gold the green back of a wave That showered a pasture fair with diamond brine, Then sank, anon uprising from its grave Went shouldering onward, higher and more high, And hid far lands, and half eclipsed the sky--

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**Who acts:** great sun, wave, anon uprising, half · **What happens:** change, gold, shower, sink, go, shoulder · **To what, where:** green back, pasture, far lands, sky

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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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great sun, wave, anon uprising, half), 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:pg78491:10:4
# text = There once--what time a great sun in decline Had changed to gold the green back of a wave That showered a pasture fair with diamond brine, Then sank, anon uprising from its grave Went shouldering onward, higher and more high, And hid far lands, and half eclipsed the sky--
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	decline	decline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	gold	gold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
22	showered	shower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	brine	brine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
31	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	anon	anon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	uprising	uprising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	Went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
39	shouldering	shoulder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	xcomp	_	_
40	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	advmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	45	advmod	_	_
45	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
49	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	54	nsubj	_	_
54	eclipsed	eclipse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past · perfect | a great sun in decline |  |  | there | time | once *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gold** | infinitive | a great sun in decline *not said here* | the green back of a wave |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shower** | past | a wave | a pasture |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pasture=Patient |
| 4 | **sink** | past | a great sun in decline *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | past | anon uprising from sun's grave |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **shoulder** | gerund | anon uprising from sun's grave *not said here* |  |  |  |  | onward *property* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **hide** | past | a great sun in decline *not said here* | far lands |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient |
| 8 | **eclipse** | past | half | the sky |  |  |  |  | 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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