The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 142
Dire their shock In fiery orbits wheeling now; anon Wheel locked in wheel.
Who acts: you, fiery orbits, champions · What happens: dire, wheel, lock, shock · To what, where: shock, fiery orbits, anon Wheel, wheel
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fiery orbits, champions), 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 | Dire | dire | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 shock | nmod:poss |
| 3 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dire | obj |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 orbits | case |
| 5 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 orbits | amod |
| 6 | orbits | orbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dire | obl |
| 7 | wheeling | wheel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 orbits | acl |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 wheeling | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 Wheel | punct |
| 10 | anon | anon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Wheel | compound |
| 11 | Wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dire | obl |
| 12 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Wheel | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 wheel | case |
| 14 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 locked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dire | imperative | you not said here | champions's shock | fiery orbits | anon Wheel obl | tree rules | ||
| 2 | wheel | gerund | fiery orbits not said here | now | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lock | participle | anon Wheel not said here | wheel | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | shock | champions = champion | nom shock «feeling transitive»: 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.
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