The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 17

But evermore the younger three made moan; And still their moans more loud and louder grew; And still Finola o’er that sea of stone For their sake fragments of wild wailings threw; And ever as she sang, the on-driving snow Choked the sweet strain; yet still she warbled low.

Who acts: louder, wild wailings, moan, driving snow, snow, things · What happens: evermore, make, grow, throw, sing, drive · To what, where: younger three made moan, sake fragments, sweet strain

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (louder, wild wailings, moan, driving snow), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 evermore	cc
2	evermore	evermore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moan	det
4	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 moan	amod
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 moan	nummod
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 moan	amod
7	moan	moan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 evermore	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 loud	punct
9	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 loud	cc
10	still	still	ADV	_	14 loud	advmod
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 moans	nmod:poss
12	moans	moan	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 loud	nsubj
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 loud	advmod
14	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 evermore	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 grew	cc
16	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 grew	nsubj
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 loud	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 o’er	punct
19	And	and	CCONJ	_	22 o’er	cc
20	still	still	ADV	_	22 o’er	advmod
21	Finola	Finola	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 o’er	compound
22	o’er	o'er	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 evermore	obl
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 sea	det
24	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 o’er	appos
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 stone	case
26	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sea	nmod
27	For	for	ADP	_	30 fragments	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 fragments	nmod:poss
29	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fragments	compound
30	fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 o’er	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 wailings	case
32	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 wailings	amod
33	wailings	wailing	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 threw	nsubj
34	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fragments	acl:relcl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 sang	punct
36	And	and	CCONJ	_	40 sang	cc
37	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	40 sang	advmod
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 sang	mark
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 sang	nsubj
40	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 evermore	parataxis
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 Choked	punct
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 snow	det
43	on	on	SCONJ	_	45 driving	mark
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 on	punct
45	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 snow	amod
46	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 Choked	nsubj
47	Choked	choke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 sang	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 strain	det
49	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 strain	amod
50	strain	strain	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 Choked	obj
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 warbled	punct
52	yet	yet	ADV	_	55 warbled	advmod
53	still	still	ADV	_	55 warbled	advmod
54	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 warbled	nsubj
55	warbled	warble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 evermore	conj
56	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 warbled	xcomp
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 evermore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	evermore	past		the younger three made moan		Finola o’er for things's sake fragments obl	tree rules
2	make	participle					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	grow	past	louder				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	throw	past	wild wailings	things's sake fragments not said here			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragment=Theme
5	sing speech: express	past	moan		ever		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
6	drive	gerund					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
7	choke	past	the driving snow	the sweet strain			vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme strain=Destination
8	warble	past	snow		yet; still	low property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	moan		things = thing				nom moan «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 10, sentence 17