The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 20
At intervals Half lost in bard-song near or shout remote, The slender wailing of some captive maid Rang out and died.
Who acts: Half, slender wailing, captive maid · What happens: lose, shout, ring out, die, wail · To what, where: intervals, remote
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 (Half, slender wailing, captive maid), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 intervals | case |
| 2 | intervals | interval | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lost | obl |
| 3 | Half | Half | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 song | case |
| 6 | bard | bard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 song | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 bard | punct |
| 8 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obl |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 shout | case |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 shout | cc |
| 11 | shout | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lost | advcl |
| 12 | remote | remote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shout | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wailing | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wailing | det |
| 15 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wailing | amod |
| 16 | wailing | wailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Rang | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 maid | case |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 maid | det |
| 19 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 maid | amod |
| 20 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wailing | nmod |
| 21 | Rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | parataxis |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 Rang | compound:prt |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 died | cc |
| 24 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Rang | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | Half | intervals | in bard song | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at interval=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | shout speech: express | infinitive | Half not said here | remote | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remote=Topic | ||||
| 3 | ring out | past | the slender wailing of some captive maid | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | die | past | the slender wailing of some captive maid not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | wail | some captive maid | nom wailing «act intransitive»: of=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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