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title: Vanished the moon in cloud: Then shone the watch-fires on the northe… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Vanished the moon in cloud: Then shone the watch-fires on the northern hills Like stars. 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 146

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Vanished the moon in cloud: Then shone the watch-fires on the northern hills Like stars.

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**What happens:** vanish, shine · **To what, where:** moon, cloud, watch fires, northern hills

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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: 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:pg78491:15:148
# text = Vanished the moon in cloud: Then shone the watch-fires on the northern hills Like stars.
1	Vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | past |  | the moon |  | cloud |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shine** | past |  | the watch fires |  | the northern hills like stars | then |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=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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