The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 134
Setanta’s shout rang loud That moment at the gate, and, with it blent, The baying of that hound!
Who acts: shout, blent, Setanta · What happens: ring, bay, shout · To what, where: gate
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shout, blent, Setanta), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Setanta | Setanta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shout | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Setanta | case |
| 3 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rang | nsubj |
| 4 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 moment | amod |
| 6 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 moment | det |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rang | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 gate | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gate | det |
| 10 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rang | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 blent | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 blent | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 blent | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 blent | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 blent | nsubj |
| 16 | blent | blent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rang | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 baying | punct |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 baying | det |
| 19 | baying | bay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 blent | acl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hound | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 hound | det |
| 22 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 baying | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 rang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | past | Setanta's shout | the gate | moment | blent shout parataxis | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gate=Location | ||
| 2 | bay | gerund | blent shout not said here | of that hound | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | shout | Setanta | nom shout «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
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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