The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 70
Then rang a wild shriek from that dreadful shape: ‘Long, long, aye long shall last those years of woe!
What happens: ring, last · To what, where: wild shriek, dreadful shape
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 rang | advmod |
| 2 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shriek | det |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shriek | amod |
| 5 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rang | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 shape | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 shape | det |
| 8 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shape | amod |
| 9 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rang | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Long | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Long | punct |
| 12 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rang | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 long | punct |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Long | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 last | punct |
| 16 | aye | aye | ADV | _ | 17 long | advmod |
| 17 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 last | advmod |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 last | aux |
| 19 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 rang | advcl |
| 20 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 years | det |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 last | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 woe | case |
| 23 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 years | nmod |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 rang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | past | a wild shriek | that dreadful shape | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shriek=Theme | |||
| 2 | last | shall | year | long property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
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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