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title: Surpassing deeds They wrought, while circled meteor-like their sword… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 150

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Surpassing deeds They wrought, while circled meteor-like their swords, Or fell like heaven’s own bolt on shield or helm.

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**Who acts:** deeds, heaven · **What happens:** surpass, wrought, circle, fall, bolt · **To what, where:** deeds, shield

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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 (deeds, heaven), 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:pg78491:13:152
# text = Surpassing deeds They wrought, while circled meteor-like their swords, Or fell like heaven’s own bolt on shield or helm.
1	Surpassing	surpass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wrought	wrought	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	circled	circle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	meteor	meteor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	bolt	bolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	helm	helm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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