The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 258
On and on-- Nor ceased he ever hurling left and right Destruction from his sling; nor slackened sleet Of javelins winged with fate.
Who acts: Nor, javelins · What happens: cease, leave, slacken, wing, sleet · To what, where: voice, sleet, javelins
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nor, javelins), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 on | case |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 on | cc |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 ceased | advmod |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 on | punct |
| 5 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ceased | nsubj |
| 6 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 left | nsubj |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 hurling | advmod |
| 9 | hurling | hurl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 left | aux:pass |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ceased | ccomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Destruction | cc |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Destruction | amod |
| 13 | Destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 sling | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sling | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sling | sling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Destruction | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 slackened | punct |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 slackened | cc |
| 19 | slackened | slacken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ceased | conj |
| 20 | sleet | sleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 slackened | obj |
| 21 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 22 javelins | case |
| 22 | javelins | javelin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sleet | nmod |
| 23 | winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 javelins | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 fate | case |
| 25 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 winged | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past | Nor | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | leave | gerund · passive | voice | right Destruction from voice's sling conj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | slacken | past | Nor not said here | sleet of javelins | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sleet=Patient | ||||
| 4 | wing | participle | javelins not said here | with fate | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sleet | javelins | nom sleet «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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