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title: Dire their shock In fiery orbits wheeling now; anon Wheel locked in… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dire their shock In fiery orbits wheeling now; anon Wheel locked in wheel. Who acts: you, fiery orbits, champions. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 142

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Dire their shock In fiery orbits wheeling now; anon Wheel locked in wheel.

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**Who acts:** you, fiery orbits, champions · **What happens:** dire, wheel, lock, shock · **To what, where:** shock, fiery orbits, anon Wheel, wheel

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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 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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:13:144
# text = Dire their shock In fiery orbits wheeling now; anon Wheel locked in wheel.
1	Dire	dire	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	orbits	orbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	wheeling	wheel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	anon	anon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
12	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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