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title: Thy bickering stars, What else but flaming cars and fiery helms This… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thy bickering stars, What else but flaming cars and fiery helms This way and that way passing? Who acts: way. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15, 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 15, sentence 107

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Thy bickering stars, What else but flaming cars and fiery helms This way and that way passing?

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**Who acts:** way · **What happens:** bicker, flame, pass · **To what, where:** cars

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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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg78491:15:109
# text = Thy bickering stars, What else but flaming cars and fiery helms This way and that way passing?
1	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bickering	bicker	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
6	else	else	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	flaming	flame	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
9	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	helms	helm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bicker** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **flame** | gerund |  | cars and fiery helms |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent car=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | gerund | this way and that way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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