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title: In silence still they stood an hour and more, Till through the West… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In silence still they stood an hour and more, Till through the West had sunk the great red sun, And from the castle wall and turrets hoar The latest crimson utterly had gone: At last the truth had reached them! then on high An orphaned People hurled its funeral cry. Who acts: queens, West, latest cr
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 31

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In silence still they stood an hour and more, Till through the West had sunk the great red sun, And from the castle wall and turrets hoar The latest crimson utterly had gone: At last the truth had reached them! then on high An orphaned People hurled its funeral cry.

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**Who acts:** queens, West, latest crimson, People, crimson · **What happens:** stand, sink, go, reach, orphan, hurl · **To what, where:** silence, great red sun, castle wall, queens, last truth, high

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queens, West, latest crimson, People), 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:pg78491:8:31
# text = In silence still they stood an hour and more, Till through the West had sunk the great red sun, And from the castle wall and turrets hoar The latest crimson utterly had gone: At last the truth had reached them! then on high An orphaned People hurled its funeral cry.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	Till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	through	through	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	sunk	sink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
22	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	turrets	turret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	compound	_	_
29	hoar	hoar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	latest	late	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	crimson	crimson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
37	At	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
43	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	_
45	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	49	advmod	_	_
46	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	obl	_	_
48	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	advmod	_	_
49	orphaned	orphan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
50	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
51	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	ccomp	_	_
52	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
53	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | queens *= queen* |  |  | silence | still; hour |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location |
| 2 | **sink** | past · perfect | the West | the great red sun |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sun=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | past · perfect | the latest crimson |  |  | the castle wall and turrets hoar |  | utterly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from wall=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **reach** | past · perfect |  | queens *= queen* |  | the last truth |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Theme at truth=Asset |
| 5 | **orphan** | past |  |  |  | high | then |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hurl** | past | People | crimson's funeral cry |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme |
| 7 | **cry** |  | crimson |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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