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title: As when, on autumn eve from hill or cape That slants into gray waste… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: As when, on autumn eve from hill or cape That slants into gray wastes of western sea, The sun long set, some shepherd stares agape At cloud that seems through endless space to flee On raven pinions down the moaning wind, Thus on that Fury stared they, well-nigh blind. Who acts: sun, shepherd, cloud,
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 29

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As when, on autumn eve from hill or cape That slants into gray wastes of western sea, The sun long set, some shepherd stares agape At cloud that seems through endless space to flee On raven pinions down the moaning wind, Thus on that Fury stared they, well-nigh blind.

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**Who acts:** sun, shepherd, cloud, Fury · **What happens:** set, stare, seem, flee · **To what, where:** agape, cloud, endless space, raven pinions, pinions

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, shepherd, cloud, Fury), 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:pg78491:9:29
# text = As when, on autumn eve from hill or cape That slants into gray wastes of western sea, The sun long set, some shepherd stares agape At cloud that seems through endless space to flee On raven pinions down the moaning wind, Thus on that Fury stared they, well-nigh blind.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	eve	eve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	cape	cape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	slants	slant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	wastes	waste	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	stares	stare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
28	agape	agape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	At	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	through	through	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
38	On	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	pinions	pinion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
41	down	down	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	moaning	moaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	fixed	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	Fury	Fury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	stared	stare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
51	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
53	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	56	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** |  | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stare** | present | some shepherd | agape |  | cloud |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seem** | present | cloud |  |  | endless space |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **flee** | to-infinitive | cloud *not said here* |  |  | raven pinions |  | down the moaning wind | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme down wind=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **stare** | past | Fury | pinions *= pinion* |  |  |  | thus *property* | 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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