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title: They hurled it forth again and yet again, The dreadful wont of that… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 32

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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.

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**Who acts:** people, cry · **What happens:** hurl, cry, reach, echo, seem, climb · **To what, where:** cry, far, cloud, hands, creatures, homeward

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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 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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:8:32
# text = 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.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wont	wont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	barbaric	barbaric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Cry	cry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obj	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	echoing	echo	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
40	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
41	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
42	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
43	like	like	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	_
45	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	sentenced	sentence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	amod	_	_
51	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
56	mute	mute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
58	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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