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title: Upon its breast perpetual light there lay, Undazzling beam, and uncr… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon its breast perpetual light there lay, Undazzling beam, and uncreated light; For lake and wood the sunshine drank all day, And breathed it softly forth to cheer the night, A silver twilight, pure from cloud or taint, Like aureole round the forehead of a saint. Who acts: sunshine, Home. A sentenc
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 52

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Upon its breast perpetual light there lay, Undazzling beam, and uncreated light; For lake and wood the sunshine drank all day, And breathed it softly forth to cheer the night, A silver twilight, pure from cloud or taint, Like aureole round the forehead of a saint.

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**Who acts:** sunshine, Home · **What happens:** lie, undazzl, drink, breathe, cheer, light · **To what, where:** uncreated light, perpetual light, beam, Home

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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 (sunshine, Home), 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:pg78491:10:52
# text = Upon its breast perpetual light there lay, Undazzling beam, and uncreated light; For lake and wood the sunshine drank all day, And breathed it softly forth to cheer the night, A silver twilight, pure from cloud or taint, Like aureole round the forehead of a saint.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	perpetual	perpetual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Undazzling	undazzl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	uncreated	uncreated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
16	For	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	breathed	breathe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	cheer	cheer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	taint	taint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	aureole	aureole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
48	round	round	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past |  | uncreated light |  | Home's perpetual light; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon light=Location |
| 2 | **undazzl** | gerund |  | beam |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drink** | past | the sunshine |  |  |  | day | for lake and wood | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **breathe** | past | the sunshine *not said here* | Home |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **cheer** | to-infinitive | the sunshine *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **light** |  | Home |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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