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title: And ever, when the sacred night descended, While with those ripples… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And ever, when the sacred night descended, While with those ripples on the sandy bars The sighing woods and winds low murmurs blended, Their music fell upon them from the stars, And they gave utterance to that gift divine In silver song or anthem crystalline. Who acts: music, stars. A sentence of «T
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 33

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And ever, when the sacred night descended, While with those ripples on the sandy bars The sighing woods and winds low murmurs blended, Their music fell upon them from the stars, And they gave utterance to that gift divine In silver song or anthem crystalline.

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**Who acts:** music, stars · **What happens:** descend, blend, fall, give · **To what, where:** low murmurs, stars, utterance, gift divine

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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 (music, stars), 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:pg78491:9:33
# text = And ever, when the sacred night descended, While with those ripples on the sandy bars The sighing woods and winds low murmurs blended, Their music fell upon them from the stars, And they gave utterance to that gift divine In silver song or anthem crystalline.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	descended	descend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
10	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	ripples	ripple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	sighing	sighing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
23	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	murmurs	murmur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
25	blended	blend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
27	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
39	utterance	utterance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
42	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	divine	divine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
44	In	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	anthem	anthem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
49	crystalline	crystalline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **descend** | participle |  |  |  |  | ever; night |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **blend** | participle |  | low murmurs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **fall** | past | murmurs's music |  |  | the stars |  | with that ripples on the sandy bars and the sighing woods and winds and low murmurs; upon murmurs *= murmur* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location |
| 4 | **give** | past | stars *= star* | utterance | that gift divine in silver song or anthem and crystalline |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent utterance=Theme to divine=Recipient |

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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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