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title: One evening through the sunset mist A camp, high-seated on a bosky h… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 117

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One evening through the sunset mist A camp, high-seated on a bosky hill, Shone out, fire-fringed: aloof it stood as one That halts ’twixt war and peace.

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**Who acts:** camp · **What happens:** seat, shine out, fringe, stand, halt · **To what, where:** camp, bosky hill, One evening, ’

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (camp), 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:pg78491:14:119
# text = One evening through the sunset mist A camp, high-seated on a bosky hill, Shone out, fire-fringed: aloof it stood as one That halts ’twixt war and peace.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	bosky	bosky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	fringed	fringe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	aloof	aloof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	obl	_	_
30	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	nsubj	_	_
31	halts	halt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	’	'	X	GW	_	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	twixt	twixt	X	ADD	_	32	goeswith	_	_
34	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | participle |  | a camp *not said here* |  | a bosky hill |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **shine out** | participle · passive |  | One evening through the sunset mist |  |  |  | a camp *nsubj:pass* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **fringe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | fire *compound* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | past | camp |  |  |  |  | as one | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **halt** | present |  | ’ |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector '=Eventuality |

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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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