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title: As the night Sank on those huge red-berried woods of Yew Loch Darvra… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: As the night Sank on those huge red-berried woods of Yew Loch Darvra’s girdle, from beneath the wave She issued, darker still. Who acts: wave. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 233

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As the night Sank on those huge red-berried woods of Yew Loch Darvra’s girdle, from beneath the wave She issued, darker still.

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**Who acts:** wave · **What happens:** berry, issue · **To what, where:** wave

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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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wave), 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:pg78491:11:235
# text = As the night Sank on those huge red-berried woods of Yew Loch Darvra’s girdle, from beneath the wave She issued, darker still.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Sank	Sank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
7	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	berried	berry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	Yew	Yew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Loch	Loch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Darvra	Darvra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
17	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
23	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	issued	issue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	conj	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **berry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **issue** | past | wave | the wave *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wave=Theme |

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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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