The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 150
Surpassing deeds They wrought, while circled meteor-like their swords, Or fell like heaven’s own bolt on shield or helm.
Who acts: deeds, heaven · What happens: surpass, wrought, circle, fall, bolt · To what, where: deeds, shield
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 (deeds, heaven), 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 | Surpassing | surpass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Surpassing | obj |
| 3 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wrought | nsubj |
| 4 | wrought | wrought | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 deeds | acl:relcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 meteor | punct |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 meteor | mark |
| 7 | circled | circle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 meteor | amod |
| 8 | meteor | meteor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Surpassing | obl |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 meteor | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 swords | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 swords | nmod:poss |
| 12 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 meteor | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 14 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 fell | cc |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 meteor | conj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 bolt | case |
| 17 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bolt | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 heaven | case |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bolt | amod |
| 20 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 shield | case |
| 22 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bolt | nmod |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 helm | cc |
| 24 | helm | helm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shield | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Surpassing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surpass | gerund | deeds | circled meteor like deeds's swords obl | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot deed=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wrought | past | deeds = deed | deeds not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | circle | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | fall | past | like heaven's own bolt on shield or helm | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bolt | heaven | shield or helm | nom bolt «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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