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title: Scorning to make complaint, they scorned not less To share a traitor… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Scorning to make complaint, they scorned not less To share a traitor’s feast, and ate of nought, Waving each dish away in haughtiness, Save little loaves that with them they had brought. Who acts: Scorning, warriors. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age»
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 53

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Scorning to make complaint, they scorned not less To share a traitor’s feast, and ate of nought, Waving each dish away in haughtiness, Save little loaves that with them they had brought.

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**Who acts:** Scorning, warriors · **What happens:** make, scorn, share, eat, wave away, save · **To what, where:** complaint, less, feast, dish, little loaves, warriors

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scorning, warriors), 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:pg78491:6:54
# text = Scorning to make complaint, they scorned not less To share a traitor’s feast, and ate of nought, Waving each dish away in haughtiness, Save little loaves that with them they had brought.
1	Scorning	scorning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	complaint	complaint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	scorned	scorn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	obj	_	_
10	To	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	traitor	traitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	nought	nought	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	haughtiness	haughtiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive | Scorning | complaint |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset complaint=Product |
| 2 | **scorn** | past | warriors *= warrior* | less |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Theme |
| 3 | **share** | to-infinitive | warriors *= warrior* *not said here* | a traitor's feast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of nought | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of nought=Source |
| 5 | **wave away** | gerund |  | each dish |  |  |  | in haughtiness; away *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent dish=Patient in haughtiness=Theme |
| 6 | **save** | infinitive | Scorning *not said here* | little loaves |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme |
| 7 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | warriors *= warrior* |  |  |  | little loaves *obj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination that=Theme |

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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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