The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 77

Finola lay, once more an eight years’ child: Upon her right hand Aodh took his rest, Upon her left Fiacre;--in death he smiled: Her little Conn was cradled on her breast: And all their saintly raiment shone as bright As sea-foam sparkling on a moonlit night;

Who acts: Finola, Death, sea foam · What happens: lie, take, smile, cradle, shine, sparkle · To what, where: child, rest, little Conn, breast, saintly raiment

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 (Finola, Death, sea foam), 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	Finola	Finola	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 child	punct
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 child	advmod
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 years	det
7	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 child	nmod:poss
9	’	's	PART	_	8 years	case
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
12	Upon	upon	ADP	_	15 hand	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hand	nmod:poss
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hand	amod
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obl
16	Aodh	Aodh	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 hand	appos
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 rest	nmod:poss
19	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Fiacre	punct
21	Upon	upon	ADP	_	24 Fiacre	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 Fiacre	nmod:poss
23	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Fiacre	amod
24	Fiacre	Fiacre	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 took	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 smiled	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 death	case
28	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 smiled	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 smiled	nsubj
30	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	parataxis
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 cradled	punct
32	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 Conn	nmod:poss
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Conn	amod
34	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 cradled	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 cradled	aux:pass
36	cradled	cradle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 smiled	conj
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 breast	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 breast	nmod:poss
39	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cradled	obl
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 raiment	punct
41	And	and	CCONJ	_	45 raiment	cc
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 raiment	det:predet
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 raiment	nmod:poss
44	saintly	saintly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 raiment	amod
45	raiment	raiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	parataxis
46	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 raiment	acl
47	as	as	ADV	_	48 bright	advmod
48	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 shone	xcomp
49	As	as	ADP	_	52 foam	case
50	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 foam	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 sea	punct
52	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 bright	obl
53	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 foam	acl
54	on	on	ADP	_	57 night	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 night	det
56	moonlit	moonlit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 night	amod
57	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 sparkling	obl
58	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Finola	a eight years's child			hands's saintly raiment parataxis	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	Finola not said here	Aodh's rest			upon child's right hand; upon child's left Fiacre	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme
3	smile	past	Death				in death	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in death=Theme
4	cradle	past · passive		child's little Conn	child's breast			tree rules
5	shine	participle		hands's saintly raiment not said here			bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sparkle	gerund	sea foam not said here			night		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 77