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title: I see the bright sun sink, yet far as it is, we can reach it before… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I see the bright sun sink, yet far as it is, we can reach it before dark. Who acts: I, sink, we. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 40

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I see the bright sun sink, yet far as it is, we can reach it before dark.

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**Who acts:** I, sink, we · **What happens:** see, be, reach · **To what, where:** bright sun sink, sink

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sink, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:4:40
# text = I see the bright sun sink, yet far as it is, we can reach it before dark.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sink	sink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | I | the bright sun sink |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sink=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be** | present | sink |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | can | we | sink |  |  | before dark | far *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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