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title: On and on-- Nor ceased he ever hurling left and right Destruction fr… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: On and on-- Nor ceased he ever hurling left and right Destruction from his sling; nor slackened sleet Of javelins winged with fate. Who acts: Nor, javelins. 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 tr
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 258

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On and on-- Nor ceased he ever hurling left and right Destruction from his sling; nor slackened sleet Of javelins winged with fate.

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**Who acts:** Nor, javelins · **What happens:** cease, leave, slacken, wing, sleet · **To what, where:** voice, sleet, javelins

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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 (Nor, javelins), 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:pg78491:15:260
# text = On and on-- Nor ceased he ever hurling left and right Destruction from his sling; nor slackened sleet Of javelins winged with fate.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	on	on	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	hurling	hurl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	sling	sling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	19	cc	_	_
19	slackened	slacken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	sleet	sleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	javelins	javelin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	winged	wing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cease** | past | Nor |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund · passive |  | voice |  |  |  | right Destruction from voice's sling *conj* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **slacken** | past | Nor *not said here* | sleet of javelins |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sleet=Patient |
| 4 | **wing** | participle |  | javelins *not said here* |  |  |  | with fate | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sleet** |  | javelins |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleet «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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