The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 5

There once a shepherd, Aibhric, high of race, Marked them far off, and marking them so loved That to the ocean’s verge he rushed apace With hands outspread.

Who acts: shepherd, marking, apace · What happens: mark, love, rush, outspread · To what, where: lands, That, verge

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 (shepherd, marking, apace), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 Marked	expl
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 Marked	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shepherd	det
4	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Marked	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Aibhric	punct
6	Aibhric	Aibhric	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 shepherd	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 high	punct
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shepherd	amod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 race	case
10	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 high	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Marked	punct
12	Marked	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 Marked	obj
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 off	advmod
15	off	off	ADV	_	12 Marked	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 loved	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 loved	cc
18	marking	mark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 loved	csubj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 marking	obj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 loved	advmod
21	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Marked	conj
22	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 loved	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	27 verge	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ocean	det
25	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 verge	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 ocean	case
27	verge	verge	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 loved	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 rushed	nsubj
29	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 verge	acl:relcl
30	apace	apace	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 outspread	nsubj
31	With	with	ADP	_	32 hands	case
32	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 apace	nmod
33	outspread	outspread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 rushed	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 Marked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mark	past	a shepherd	lands = land	there	off, once property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination
2	mark	gerund		lands = land			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination
3	love	past	marking	That		to the ocean's verge	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
4	rush	past	shepherd	the ocean's verge not said here			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent verge=Patient clause=Result
5	outspread	participle	apace with hands				tree rules

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 5

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 5