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title: Evening sank Upon the dripping groves and shuddering flood With rain… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Evening sank Upon the dripping groves and shuddering flood With rainy wailings. 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 153

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Evening sank Upon the dripping groves and shuddering flood With rainy wailings.

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**What happens:** sink, drip, shudder · **To what, where:** groves, flood

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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: 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:pg78491:13:155
# text = Evening sank Upon the dripping groves and shuddering flood With rainy wailings.
1	Evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dripping	drip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	groves	grove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	shuddering	shudder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
9	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	With	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wailings	wailing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **sink** | past |  |  |  |  | evening |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **drip** | gerund |  | groves |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grove=Source |
| 3 | **shudder** | gerund |  | flood |  |  |  | with rainy wailings | 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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