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title: This way and that they rolled prophetic bolts Three hours; and brake… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: This way and that they rolled prophetic bolts Three hours; and brake with warnings from the stars And mandates from the synod of the Gods, The king’s resolve. Who acts: ways, way. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11,
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 199

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This way and that they rolled prophetic bolts Three hours; and brake with warnings from the stars And mandates from the synod of the Gods, The king’s resolve.

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**Who acts:** ways, way · **What happens:** roll, break · **To what, where:** prophetic bolts, way

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This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ways, way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:11:201
# text = This way and that they rolled prophetic bolts Three hours; and brake with warnings from the stars And mandates from the synod of the Gods, The king’s resolve.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	prophetic	prophetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bolts	bolt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	brake	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	warnings	warning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	mandates	mandate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	synod	synod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Gods	God	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	resolve	resolve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | past | ways *= way* | prophetic bolts and Three hours |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bolt=Agent |
| 2 | **break** | infinitive | this way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with warnings; from the synod; from the stars and mandates | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from star=Co-Patient |

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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.

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**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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