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title: To-day face-whitening death is on that face; And in my hand my sword… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: To-day face-whitening death is on that face; And in my hand my sword:--’tis crimson yet. Who acts: day whitening death. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 217

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To-day face-whitening death is on that face; And in my hand my sword:--’tis crimson yet.

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**Who acts:** day whitening death · **What happens:** whiten, be · **To what, where:** face

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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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day whitening death), 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:pg78491:13:219
# text = To-day face-whitening death is on that face; And in my hand my sword:--’tis crimson yet.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
4	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	whitening	whiten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	crimson	crimson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whiten** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | face *compound* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | day whitening death |  |  | that face and my hand  my sword and tis crimson |  | my hand  my sword and tis crimson *conj* | 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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