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title: Or as their snowy night-clothes shone of old When now the night was… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Or as their snowy night-clothes shone of old When now the night was past, and Lir, their sire, Upraised them from the warm cot’s silken fold, And bade them watch the sun’s ascending fire, And watched himself its beam, now here now there, Flashed from white foot, blue eyes, or golden hair. Who acts: 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 78

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Or as their snowy night-clothes shone of old When now the night was past, and Lir, their sire, Upraised them from the warm cot’s silken fold, And bade them watch the sun’s ascending fire, And watched himself its beam, now here now there, Flashed from white foot, blue eyes, or golden hair.

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**Who acts:** night, Lir, bade, sun · **What happens:** shine, be, upraise, watch, ascend, flash · **To what, where:** snowy night clothes, clothes, silken fold, bade, fire, Lir

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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 (night, Lir, bade, sun), 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:pg78491:10:78
# text = Or as their snowy night-clothes shone of old When now the night was past, and Lir, their sire, Upraised them from the warm cot’s silken fold, And bade them watch the sun’s ascending fire, And watched himself its beam, now here now there, Flashed from white foot, blue eyes, or golden hair.
1	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
4	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
11	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	past	past	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	Lir	Lir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
24	Upraised	upraise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	cot	cot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	fold	fold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	ccomp	_	_
41	ascending	ascend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	40	xcomp	_	_
42	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
46	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	45	obj	_	_
47	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	51	advmod	_	_
51	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	45	conj	_	_
52	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	53	advmod	_	_
53	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	51	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	Flashed	flash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	conj	_	_
56	from	from	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
60	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
63	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
64	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | participle · passive |  | hands's snowy night clothes |  |  |  | of old | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the night |  |  |  |  | past *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **upraise** | past | Lir | clothes |  | the warm cot's silken fold |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **watch** | present |  | bade  clothes |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **ascend** | gerund | bade  clothes *not said here* | fire |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fire=Trajectory |
| 6 | **watch** | past |  | Lir |  |  |  | sun's beam *obj* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent himself=Theme beam=Attribute |
| 7 | **flash** | participle |  |  |  | white foot and blue eyes or golden hair |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **beam** |  | sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication 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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