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title: As the sun declined He clomb a rocky height, and northward gazed, An… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: As the sun declined He clomb a rocky height, and northward gazed, And cried; ‘Ye Red Branch warriors, haste! Who acts: sun, Ye. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 56

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As the sun declined He clomb a rocky height, and northward gazed, And cried; ‘Ye Red Branch warriors, haste!

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**Who acts:** sun, Ye · **What happens:** decline, clomb, gaze, cry, warrior · **To what, where:** rocky height

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, Ye), 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:pg78491:12:58
# text = As the sun declined He clomb a rocky height, and northward gazed, And cried; ‘Ye Red Branch warriors, haste!
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	declined	decline	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	clomb	clomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	northward	northward	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nsubj	_	_
20	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	Branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decline** | past | the sun | a rocky height |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent height=Theme |
| 2 | **clomb** |  | sun |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gaze** | past | the sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | northward *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **warrior** |  | Ye |  |  |  |  | haste *conj* | 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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