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title: That hurricane of wheels Not less was heard by men who nothing saw:… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Ope
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 173

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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.’

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

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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 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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:12:175
# text = 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.’
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	nsubj	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	On	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	stony	stony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	hamlet	hamlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	vale	vale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	muttered	mutter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
33	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Deliverance	deliverance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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