--- title: And since she scorned her music to abate, Nor ceased to freeze their… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: And since she scorned her music to abate, Nor ceased to freeze their triumph with her dirge, The princes and the people rose in hate And hurled her harp and her into the surge: Yet still, halfway ’twixt midnight and the morn, That dirge swelled up, by tempest onward borne! 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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 (Fate, Nor, people, twixt midnight), 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:pg78491:8:13 # text = And since she scorned her music to abate, Nor ceased to freeze their triumph with her dirge, The princes and the people rose in hate And hurled her harp and her into the surge: Yet still, halfway ’twixt midnight and the morn, That dirge swelled up, by tempest onward borne! 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 2 since since SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 scorned scorn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 abate abate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 Nor Nor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 ceased cease VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 freeze freeze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 triumph triumph NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 dirge dirge NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 hate hate NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 And and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 hurled hurl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 harp harp NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 conj _ _ 34 into into ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 surge surge NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 : : PUNCT : _ 44 punct _ _ 38 Yet yet CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 39 still still ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 halfway halfway ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 42 ’ ' PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 twixt twixt PROPN ADD _ 44 compound _ _ 44 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 morn morn NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 50 det _ _ 50 dirge dirge NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 51 swelled swell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 52 up up ADP RP _ 51 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 54 by by ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 tempest temp ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 51 obl:unmarked _ _ 56 onward onward ADV RB _ 57 advmod _ _ 57 borne bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 55 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scorn** | past | Fate | Fate's music | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **abate** | to-infinitive | Fate *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **cease** | past | Nor | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **freeze** | to-infinitive | Nor *not said here* | eyes's triumph | | | | with Fate's dirge and the princes | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent triumph=Patient with dirge=Instrument | | 5 | **rise** | past | the people | | | hate | | into the surge; Fate *conj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hate=Location | | 6 | **hurl** | past | the people *not said here* | Fate's harp | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Theme | | 7 | **swell up** | past | twixt midnight and the morn | | | | | by tempest; that dirge *nsubj* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 8 | **bear** | participle | twixt midnight and the morn *not said here* | | | | | onward *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **triumph** | | eyes *= eye* | | | | | | nom triumph «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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/14/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/)