The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 72
Standing on life’s dark verge She scorned to die till she had sung their dirge.
Who acts: face · What happens: stand, scorn, die, sing · To what, where: dark verge, dirge
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 verge | case |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 verge | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 life | case |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 verge | amod |
| 6 | verge | verge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Standing | obl |
| 7 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 scorned | nsubj |
| 8 | scorned | scorn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 verge | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 die | mark |
| 10 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 scorned | xcomp |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 sung | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sung | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sung | aux |
| 14 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 die | advcl |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 dirge | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dirge | dirge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sung | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | life's dark verge | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on verge=Location | |||||
| 2 | scorn | past | face | life's dark verge not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die | to-infinitive | face not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past · perfect | face | Bonachts's dirge | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dirge=Theme |
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.
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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