The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 79

T’ward them they sped: their sorrows they recounted: The warriors could not aid them, and rode by: Then higher than of old their anguish mounted; And farther rang through heaven their piteous cry; And when it ceased, this lay Finola sang While all the echoing rocks and caverns rang:

Who acts: T’ward, sorrows, warriors, cry, this, Finola · What happens: speed, recount, not aid, anguish, mount, ring · To what, where: growths, piteous cry, heaven · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (T’ward, sorrows, warriors, 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	T’ward	T'ward	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sped	nsubj
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 T’ward	flat
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sped	nsubj
4	sped	speed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 recounted	punct
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sorrows	nmod:poss
7	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 recounted	nsubj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 recounted	nsubj
9	recounted	recount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sped	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 aid	punct
11	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 warriors	det
12	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 aid	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 aid	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 aid	advmod
15	aid	aid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 recounted	ccomp
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 aid	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rode	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rode	cc
19	rode	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 aid	obl
20	by	by	ADP	_	19 rode	nmod
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 higher	punct
22	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 higher	advmod
23	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 anguish	advcl
24	than	than	ADP	_	26 old	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	24 than	fixed
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 higher	obl
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 anguish	nmod:poss
28	anguish	anguish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 aid	parataxis
29	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 anguish	xcomp
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 rang	punct
31	And	and	CCONJ	_	32 farther	cc
32	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 rang	advmod
33	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sped	conj
34	through	through	ADP	_	35 heaven	case
35	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rang	obl
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 cry	nmod:poss
37	piteous	piteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 cry	amod
38	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rang	obj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 lay	punct
40	And	and	CCONJ	_	46 lay	cc
41	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	43 ceased	advmod
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 ceased	nsubj
43	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 lay	advcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 ceased	punct
45	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 lay	nsubj
46	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sped	parataxis
47	Finola	Finola	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 sang	nsubj
48	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 lay	conj
49	While	while	SCONJ	_	56 rang	mark
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	53 rocks	det:predet
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 rocks	det
52	echoing	echoing	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 rocks	compound
53	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 rang	nsubj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 caverns	cc
55	caverns	cavern	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 rocks	conj
56	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 sang	advcl
57	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 sped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speed	past	T’ward			growths = growth nsubj	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	recount speech: other	past	growths's sorrows			growths = growth nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not aid	could	the warriors	growths = growth		rode obl	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
4	anguish	infinitive				growths = growth nmod:poss	tree rules
5	mount	participle					vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
6	ring	past	T’ward not said here	growths's piteous cry	heaven	far property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cry=Theme
7	cease	past	cry				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
8	lie	past	this				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	sing speech: express	past	Finola				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
10	ring	past	all echoing rocks and caverns				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	sorrow		growths = growth				nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
12	cry		growths = growth				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 9, sentence 79