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title: Long hours they strove till morning’s purer gleams Vanished in noon. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Long hours they strove till morning’s purer gleams Vanished in noon. Who acts: Long hours. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 151

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Long hours they strove till morning’s purer gleams Vanished in noon.

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**Who acts:** Long hours · **What happens:** strive, vanish · **To what, where:** purer gleams

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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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Long hours), 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:pg78491:13:153
# text = Long hours they strove till morning’s purer gleams Vanished in noon.
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	strove	strive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	till	till	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	purer	pure	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	gleams	gleam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	Vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strive** | past | Long hours |  |  |  | till morning's purer gleams | deeds *= deed* *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **vanish** | participle |  | morning's purer gleams *not said here* |  |  | noon |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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