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title: Neath the raftered roof A far-sunk window opened to the sky, While p… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Neath the raftered roof A far-sunk window opened to the sky, While purple twilight wove with warp and woof O’er deepening heavens its dewy mantle dark, And dusking woods, that hour unseen; when, hark Who acts: sunk window, purple twilight. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends o
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 84

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Neath the raftered roof A far-sunk window opened to the sky, While purple twilight wove with warp and woof O’er deepening heavens its dewy mantle dark, And dusking woods, that hour unseen; when, hark

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**Who acts:** sunk window, purple twilight · **What happens:** rafter, open, weave, deepen, dusk · **To what, where:** sky, heavens, woods

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunk window, purple twilight), 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:pg78491:2:89
# text = Neath the raftered roof A far-sunk window opened to the sky, While purple twilight wove with warp and woof O’er deepening heavens its dewy mantle dark, And dusking woods, that hour unseen; when, hark
1	Neath	neath	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	raftered	rafter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	sunk	sunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wove	weave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	warp	warp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	woof	woof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	O’er	O'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
24	deepening	deepen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
25	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	dewy	dewy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	dusking	dusk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
33	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	unseen	unseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
39	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	hark	hark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rafter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** | past | a sunk window |  | the sky |  |  | neath the raftered roof; hark *parataxis* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sky=Recipient |
| 3 | **weave** | past | purple twilight |  |  |  |  | with warp and woof | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **deepen** | gerund | purple twilight *not said here* | heavens |  |  |  | twilight's dewy mantle *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **dusk** | gerund | a sunk window *not said here* | woods |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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