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title: Dead on thy marriage garland lies mine own; For lo! the stain accurs… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead on thy marriage garland lies mine own; For lo! the stain accursed is on our sword: Thy race came first: this Island should be theirs!”’ Who acts: stain, race, Island, Thy. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13, wi
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 39

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Dead on thy marriage garland lies mine own; For lo! the stain accursed is on our sword: Thy race came first: this Island should be theirs!”’

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**Who acts:** stain, race, Island, Thy · **What happens:** lie, accurs, be, come, race · **To what, where:** mine, stain, sword, rites

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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 (stain, race, Island, Thy), 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:pg78491:13:41
# text = Dead on thy marriage garland lies mine own; For lo! the stain accursed is on our sword: Thy race came first: this Island should be theirs!”’
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	csubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	garland	garland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	For	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stain	stain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	accursed	accurs	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present |  | mine |  |  |  | own *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location my=Theme |
| 2 | **accurs** | participle |  | the stain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the stain |  |  | our sword |  | our *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past | Thy race | our sword *not said here* |  |  |  | first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sword=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | should | this Island | rites *= rite* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **race** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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