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title: At intervals Half lost in bard-song near or shout remote, The slende… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15, with its depen
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 20

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At intervals Half lost in bard-song near or shout remote, The slender wailing of some captive maid Rang out and died.

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**Who acts:** Half, slender wailing, captive maid · **What happens:** lose, shout, ring out, die, wail · **To what, where:** intervals, remote

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:15:22
# text = At intervals Half lost in bard-song near or shout remote, The slender wailing of some captive maid Rang out and died.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	intervals	interval	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
3	Half	Half	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	bard	bard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
12	remote	remote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	wailing	wailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
19	captive	captive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	Rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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