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title: The moonlight hours Shone brightly on their labours. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The moonlight hours Shone brightly on their labours. Who acts: moonlight hours. 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 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 15, sentence 130

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The moonlight hours Shone brightly on their labours.

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**Who acts:** moonlight hours · **What happens:** shine · **To what, where:** labours

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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 (moonlight 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:pg78491:15:132
# text = The moonlight hours Shone brightly on their labours.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	Shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	labours	labour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | participle | the moonlight hours |  |  | duties's labours |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on labour=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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