The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 85

Outside that casement rang a piercing wail; Then, past it slow, a dread and shrouded Form On demon wings was seen of all to sail: Shriek after shriek out-swelled into a storm: And o’er that flower new-born of infancy All heard the Banshee’s death-denouncing cry.

Who acts: o’er, Banshee · What happens: ring, shroud, see, sail, shriek, swell · To what, where: piercing wail, Form, demon wings, storm, denouncing cry

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (o’er, Banshee), 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	Outside	outside	ADP	_	3 casement	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 casement	det
3	casement	casement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rang	obl
4	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wail	det
6	piercing	piercing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wail	compound
7	wail	wail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rang	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 slow	punct
9	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 slow	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Then	punct
11	past	past	ADP	_	13 slow	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 slow	nsubj
13	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rang	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dread	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 dread	det
16	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slow	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 shrouded	cc
18	shrouded	shroud	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rang	conj
19	Form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shrouded	obj
20	On	on	ADP	_	22 wings	case
21	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wings	compound
22	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 seen	obl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 seen	aux:pass
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 shrouded	advcl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 all	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 seen	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 sail	mark
28	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 seen	advcl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 Shriek	punct
30	Shriek	shriek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 sail	conj
31	after	after	SCONJ	_	32 shriek	mark
32	shriek	shriek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 Shriek	xcomp
33	out	out	ADV	_	32 shriek	advmod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 out	punct
35	swelled	swell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 shriek	xcomp
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 storm	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 storm	det
38	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 swelled	obl
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 o’er	punct
40	And	and	CCONJ	_	41 o’er	cc
41	o’er	o'er	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rang	parataxis
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 flower	nsubj
43	flower	flower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 o’er	acl:relcl
44	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 born	amod
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 new	punct
46	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 flower	xcomp
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 infancy	case
48	infancy	infancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 born	obl
49	All	all	ADV	_	50 heard	advmod
50	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 born	advcl
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Banshee	det
52	Banshee	Banshee	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 cry	nmod:poss
53	’s	's	PART	_	52 Banshee	case
54	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 denouncing	compound
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 death	punct
56	denouncing	denounce	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	57 cry	amod
57	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 heard	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ring	past		a piercing wail		outside that casement; o’er parataxis	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wail=Theme
2	shroud	past		Form			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme form=Destination
3	see	past · passive			demon wings	of all	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
4	sail	to-infinitive					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	shriek	infinitive					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	shriek	infinitive				out property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	swell	participle			a storm		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	flower	present	o’er				tree rules
9	bear	participle	o’er not said here			of infancy	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
10	hear	past	o’er not said here	the Banshee's denouncing cry		all property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
11	denounce	gerund				death compound	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
12	cry		the Banshee				nom cry «communication intransitive»: 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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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 85