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title: Sail on till buried in the ascending sun!’ — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sail on till buried in the ascending sun!’ A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4, 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 4, sentence 14

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Sail on till buried in the ascending sun!’

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**What happens:** bury, ascend · **To what, where:** Sail, ascending sun

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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 4. 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:pg78491:4:14
# text = Sail on till buried in the ascending sun!’
1	Sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	ascending	ascend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | participle |  | Sail *not said here* |  | the ascending sun |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sun=Destination |
| 2 | **ascend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=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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