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title: Standing on life’s dark verge She scorned to die till she had sung t… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Standing on life’s dark verge She scorned to die till she had sung their dirge. Who acts: face. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7, 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 7, sentence 72

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Standing on life’s dark verge She scorned to die till she had sung their dirge.

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**Who acts:** face · **What happens:** stand, scorn, die, sing · **To what, where:** dark verge, dirge

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face), 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:pg78491:7:72
# text = Standing on life’s dark verge She scorned to die till she had sung their dirge.
1	Standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	verge	verge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	scorned	scorn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	dirge	dirge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  | life's dark verge |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on verge=Location |
| 2 | **scorn** | past | face | life's dark verge *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** | to-infinitive | face *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · perfect | face | Bonachts's dirge |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dirge=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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