The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 173

That hurricane of wheels Not less was heard by men who nothing saw: On stony plain, in hamlet, and in vale:-- They muttered as in sleep; ‘Deliverance comes.’

Who acts: men, plains, Deliverance · What happens: hear, see, mutter, come · To what, where: hurricane, stony plain

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, plains, Deliverance), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 hurricane	det
2	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 wheels	case
4	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hurricane	nmod
5	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 less	advmod
6	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 heard	advmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	aux:pass
8	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 men	case
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heard	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 saw	nsubj
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 men	acl:relcl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 plain	punct
15	On	on	ADP	_	17 plain	case
16	stony	stony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 plain	amod
17	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hamlet	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 hamlet	case
20	hamlet	hamlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 plain	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 vale	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 vale	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 vale	case
24	vale	vale	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 plain	appos
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 vale	punct
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 muttered	punct
27	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 muttered	nsubj
28	muttered	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	conj
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 sleep	case
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 sleep	case
31	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 muttered	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 comes	punct
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 comes	punct
34	Deliverance	deliverance	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 comes	nsubj
35	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 comes	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	35 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · passive	men	that hurricane of wheels	stony plain and hamlet	less property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
2	see	past	men			nothing nsubj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	mutter speech: assert	past	plains = plain			as sleep	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	present	Deliverance				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 173