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title: In the West the sun Was sinking; in the East the moon uprose; While… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the West the sun Was sinking; in the East the moon uprose; While camped her host on Uta’s sacred plain Betwixt the double glories. Who acts: sun, moon. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 12

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In the West the sun Was sinking; in the East the moon uprose; While camped her host on Uta’s sacred plain Betwixt the double glories.

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**Who acts:** sun, moon · **What happens:** sink, uprose, camp · **To what, where:** West, East, host, sacred plain

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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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, moon), 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:pg78491:15:14
# text = In the West the sun Was sinking; in the East the moon uprose; While camped her host on Uta’s sacred plain Betwixt the double glories.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	sinking	sink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	uprose	uprose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	camped	camp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	Uta	Uta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	Betwixt	Betwixt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	glories	glory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | past · progressive | the sun |  |  | the West |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **uprose** | past | the moon |  |  | the East |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **camp** | past | the moon *not said here* | moon's host |  | Uta's sacred plain |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme host=Location |

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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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