--- title: The strong man’s death Lifted that veil his victory ne’er had raised… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: The strong man’s death Lifted that veil his victory ne’er had raised: Standing mid others she beheld him dead: Thenceforth that deep-toned voice, that mournful front, Those stern yet stately ways, so great and plain, Haunted her memory. Who acts: death, veil, Vanity, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death, veil, Vanity, that), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:14:110 # text = The strong man’s death Lifted that veil his victory ne’er had raised: Standing mid others she beheld him dead: Thenceforth that deep-toned voice, that mournful front, Those stern yet stately ways, so great and plain, Haunted her memory. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’s 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 Lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 veil veil NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 victory victory NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 ne’er ne'er NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 raised raise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 Standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 16 mid mid X AFX _ 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 beheld behold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 23 Thenceforth thenceforth ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 24 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 nsubj _ _ 25 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 toned tone VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ _ 28 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 31 mournful mournful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 Those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 35 stern stern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 36 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 stately stately ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ _ 38 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 Haunted haunt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 46 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift** | past | the strong man's death | that veil | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme | | 2 | **raise** | past · perfect · passive | that veil *not said here* | death's victory ne’er | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **stand** | gerund | the strong man's death *not said here* | mid | | | | others *obj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus | | 4 | **behold** | past | Vanity | death | | | | dead *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 5 | **tone** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **voice** *speech: other* | | that | that mournful front | | | | that stern ways *conj*; thenceforth *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **haunt** | past | the strong man's death *not said here* | Vanity's memory | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus memory=Experiencer | | 8 | **die** | | the strong man | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/14/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/14/109/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/14/)