The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 70

She spake; and on the sands they stept--the Four-- Then lo, from heaven there came a miracle: Soon as they left the wave, and trod the shore The weight of bygone centuries on them fell: To human forms they changed, yet human none;-- Dread, shapeless weights of wrinkles and of bone.

Who acts: sands, heaven, weight · What happens: stept, come, leave, tread, fall, change · To what, where: Four, sands, miracle, wave, shore, human forms

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 (sands, heaven, weight), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spake	compound
2	spake	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 stept	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stept	cc
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 sands	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sands	det
7	sands	sand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stept	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stept	nsubj
9	stept	stept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spake	conj
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 Four	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Four	det
12	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 stept	obj
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 Four	punct
14	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 came	advmod
15	lo	lo	INTJ	_	20 came	discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heaven	punct
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 heaven	case
18	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 heaven	advmod
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stept	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 miracle	det
22	miracle	miracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 left	punct
24	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 left	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 left	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 left	nsubj
27	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wave	det
29	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 left	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 trod	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 trod	cc
32	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 left	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 shore	det
34	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 trod	obj
35	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 weight	det
36	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fell	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 centuries	case
38	bygone	bygone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 centuries	amod
39	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 weight	nmod
40	on	on	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 centuries	nmod
42	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 trod	conj
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 fell	punct
44	To	to	ADP	_	46 forms	case
45	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 forms	amod
46	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 fell	obl
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 changed	nsubj
48	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 forms	acl:relcl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 none	punct
50	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	52 none	cc
51	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 none	amod
52	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	2 spake	conj
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 Dread	punct
54	--	--	PUNCT	_	55 Dread	punct
55	Dread	Dread	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spake	appos
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 weights	punct
57	shapeless	shapeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 weights	amod
58	weights	weight	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 Dread	conj
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 wrinkles	case
60	wrinkles	wrinkle	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 weights	nmod
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 bone	cc
62	of	of	ADP	_	63 bone	case
63	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 wrinkles	conj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stept	past	sands = sand	the Four	the sands			tree rules
2	come	past	heaven	a miracle		then		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location miracle=Theme
3	leave	past	sands = sand	the wave			soon property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme
4	tread	past		the shore				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location shore=Theme
5	fall	past	the weight of bygone centuries on sands				to human forms	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to form=Theme
6	change	past	sands = sand	human forms not said here				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient

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 70