The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 32
They hurled it forth again and yet again, The dreadful wont of that barbaric time; Cry after cry that reached the far off main, And, echoing, seemed from cloud to cloud to climb; Then lifted hands like creatures broken-hearted, Or sentenced men; and homeward, mute, departed.
Who acts: people, cry · What happens: hurl, cry, reach, echo, seem, climb · To what, where: cry, far, cloud, hands, creatures, homeward
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, cry), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hurled | nsubj |
| 2 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hurled | obj |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 2 hurled | advmod |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 hurled | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 again | cc |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 8 again | advmod |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 again | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wont | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wont | det |
| 11 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wont | amod |
| 12 | wont | wont | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hurled | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 time | det |
| 15 | barbaric | barbaric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wont | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 Cry | punct |
| 18 | Cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 hurled | parataxis |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 cry | case |
| 20 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Cry | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 reached | nsubj |
| 22 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cry | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 far | det |
| 24 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 reached | obj |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 main | case |
| 26 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 far | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 seemed | punct |
| 28 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 seemed | cc |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 echoing | punct |
| 30 | echoing | echo | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 seemed | ccomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 echoing | punct |
| 32 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hurled | parataxis |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 cloud | case |
| 34 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 seemed | obl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 cloud | mark |
| 36 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cloud | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 climb | mark |
| 38 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 cloud | acl |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 lifted | punct |
| 40 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 lifted | advmod |
| 41 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hurled | conj |
| 42 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 lifted | obj |
| 43 | like | like | ADP | _ | 44 creatures | case |
| 44 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 hands | nmod |
| 45 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 creatures | acl |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 broken | punct |
| 47 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 broken | xcomp |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 men | punct |
| 49 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 51 men | cc |
| 50 | sentenced | sentence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 51 men | amod |
| 51 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 lifted | obl |
| 52 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 58 departed | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 homeward | cc |
| 54 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 departed | nsubj:pass |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 mute | punct |
| 56 | mute | mute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 homeward | conj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 departed | punct |
| 58 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hurled | parataxis |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hurled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurl | past | people | cry | again; again; yet | the dreadful wont of that barbaric time parataxis; forth property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 2 | cry speech: express | infinitive | after cry | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reach | past | cry | the far | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent far=Theme | ||||
| 4 | echo | gerund | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | seem | past | cloud and cloud | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | climb | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | lift | past | people not said here | hands | then | like creatures; sentenced men obl | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||
| 8 | break | participle | creatures not said here | hearted property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 9 | sentence | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 10 | depart | participle · passive | homeward and mute | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location |
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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