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title: Twixt these twain, Shone out, distincter as the sun declined, Long n… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Twixt these twain, Shone out, distincter as the sun declined, Long northern ranges. Who acts: Twixt twain. 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 93

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Twixt these twain, Shone out, distincter as the sun declined, Long northern ranges.

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**Who acts:** Twixt twain · **What happens:** shine out, decline · **To what, where:** Twixt twain, Long northern ranges

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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 (Twixt twain), 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:pg78491:15:95
# text = Twixt these twain, Shone out, distincter as the sun declined, Long northern ranges.
1	Twixt	Twixt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	twain	twain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	distincter	distinct	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	declined	decline	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ranges	range	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine out** | participle |  | this Twixt twain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **decline** | past | this Twixt twain | Long northern ranges |  |  |  | the sun *nsubj* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent range=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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