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title: I rather choose With mine own hand to avenge eretime my death Than t… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: I rather choose With mine own hand to avenge eretime my death Than trust that task to others!’ Who acts: I, my. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14, 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 14, sentence 97

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I rather choose With mine own hand to avenge eretime my death Than trust that task to others!’

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** choose, avenge, die · **To what, where:** eretime

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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:pg78491:14:99
# text = I rather choose With mine own hand to avenge eretime my death Than trust that task to others!’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	choose	choose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	With	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	avenge	avenge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
10	eretime	eretime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	Than	than	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	det	_	_
16	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | present | I |  |  |  |  | with own hand  mine | tree rules |
| 2 | **avenge** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | eretime |  |  |  | than trust *obl*; my death *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «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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