The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 23

And since with that rough ice their feet were sore God for their sake a breeze from Eden sent That gently raised them from the ocean’s floor And in its bosom, as an ambient tent, Held them, suspense: and with a dew of balm God, while they slept, made air and ocean calm.

Who acts: feet, breeze, That, ambient tent · What happens: be, send, raise, hold, sleep, make · To what, where: sore God, feet, floor, God, air

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 (feet, breeze, That, ambient tent), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	19 sent	cc
2	since	since	ADV	_	19 sent	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 ice	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 ice	det
5	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ice	amod
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	obl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 feet	nmod:poss
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 God	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 God	cop
10	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 God	amod
11	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ice	nmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 sake	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sake	nmod:poss
14	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 God	nmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 breeze	det
16	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	nsubj
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 Eden	case
18	Eden	Eden	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 breeze	nmod
19	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 raised	nsubj
21	gently	gently	ADV	_	22 raised	advmod
22	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sent	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 raised	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	28 floor	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ocean	det
26	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 floor	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 ocean	case
28	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 raised	obl
29	And	and	CCONJ	_	32 bosom	cc
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 bosom	case
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 bosom	nmod:poss
32	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 floor	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 tent	punct
34	as	as	ADP	_	37 tent	case
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 tent	det
36	ambient	ambient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 tent	amod
37	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 raised	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Held	punct
39	Held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 tent	acl:relcl
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 Held	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 suspense	punct
42	suspense	suspense	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tent	conj
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	47 dew	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 dew	cc
45	with	with	ADP	_	47 dew	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 dew	det
47	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 God	case
49	balm	balm	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 God	nmod:desc
50	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 dew	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 slept	punct
52	while	while	SCONJ	_	54 slept	mark
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 slept	nsubj
54	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 God	acl:relcl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 made	punct
56	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 slept	conj
57	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 made	obj
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 ocean	cc
59	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 air	conj
60	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 made	xcomp
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	seas's feet	sore God		for seas's sake	tree rules
2	send	past	a breeze from Eden			with that rough ice; with a dew of God balm; since property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	raise	past	That	feet = foot	the ocean's floor and breeze's bosom	as a ambient tent and suspense; gently property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme from floor=Destination
4	hold	past	a ambient tent and suspense not said here	feet = foot			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	sleep	past	feet = foot	God balm not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme
6	make	past	feet = foot not said here	air and ocean		calm property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset air=Product
7	bosom		breeze				nom bosom «state transitive»: 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 23