In this excerpt from emily dickinson's poem "dying," what is the meaning of the word onset? i heard a fly buzz—when i died— the stillness in the room was like the stillness in the air— between the heaves of storm— the eyes around—had wrung them dry— and breaths were gathering firm for that last onset—when the king be witnessed—in the room—choices:

the sentence does not violate the phrase structure second rule (introduced by noam chomsky) because noun phrases consist of a determiner such as a, the or every, and a noun. in the sentence, the noun phrase the cake includes a determiner (the) and a noun (cake).

on the other hand, the first rule indicates that a sentence encloses a noun phrase, followed by a verb phrase. the example sentence can be analysed as follows:

john (n) + ate (v) + the (det) + cake (n).

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