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title: Then rang a wild shriek from that dreadful shape: ‘Long, long, aye l… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then rang a wild shriek from that dreadful shape: ‘Long, long, aye long shall last those years of woe! A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 70

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Then rang a wild shriek from that dreadful shape: ‘Long, long, aye long shall last those years of woe!

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**What happens:** ring, last · **To what, where:** wild shriek, dreadful shape

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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: 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:pg78491:8:70
# text = Then rang a wild shriek from that dreadful shape: ‘Long, long, aye long shall last those years of woe!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shriek	shriek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	aye	aye	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
20	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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