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title: Slowly the sun declined; And as wayfarers oft when twilight falls Ad… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Slowly the sun declined; And as wayfarers oft when twilight falls Advance with strength renewed, so they, refreshed, Surpassed their deeds at morning. Who acts: sun, twilight, wayfarers. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, p
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 172

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Slowly the sun declined; And as wayfarers oft when twilight falls Advance with strength renewed, so they, refreshed, Surpassed their deeds at morning.

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**Who acts:** sun, twilight, wayfarers · **What happens:** decline, fall, renew, refresh, surpass · **To what, where:** Advance, strength, deeds

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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 (sun, twilight, wayfarers), 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:pg78491:13:174
# text = Slowly the sun declined; And as wayfarers oft when twilight falls Advance with strength renewed, so they, refreshed, Surpassed their deeds at morning.
1	Slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
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	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	wayfarers	wayfarer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
11	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	Advance	Advance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	renewed	renew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	refreshed	refresh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Surpassed	surpass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	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 |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **fall** | present | twilight | Advance |  |  |  | with strength | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient advance=Result |
| 3 | **renew** | participle |  | strength *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **refresh** | past | wayfarers *= wayfarer* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **surpass** | past | wayfarers *= wayfarer* *not said here* | wayfarers's deeds |  |  | morning |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot deed=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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