The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 101

In old time, Then when some God had laid on me his hand, Dectara, my wife, immured me in my house, Year after year, and weighed the lessening dole: But thou, to manhood grown, though even to her Reverent, didst pluck her from that place usurped, Lifting thy poor old father.’

Who acts: God, hand, place · What happens: lay, immure, weigh, lessen, grow, do · To what, where: me, house, lessening dole, manhood, Reverent, wife

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, hand, place), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laid	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
5	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 laid	advmod
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 laid	mark
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 God	det
8	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 laid	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 laid	aux
10	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 immured	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 laid	obl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hand	nmod:poss
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 immured	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Dectara	punct
16	Dectara	Dectara	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 hand	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wife	punct
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wife	nmod:poss
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Dectara	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wife	punct
21	immured	immure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 immured	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 house	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 house	nmod:poss
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 immured	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Year	punct
27	Year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 house	nmod
28	after	after	ADP	_	29 year	case
29	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Year	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 weighed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 weighed	cc
32	weighed	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 immured	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 dole	det
34	lessening	lessen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 dole	amod
35	dole	dole	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 weighed	obj
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 thou	punct
37	But	but	CCONJ	_	38 thou	cc
38	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 weighed	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 manhood	punct
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 manhood	case
41	manhood	manhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 weighed	obl
42	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 manhood	acl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 Reverent	punct
44	though	though	SCONJ	_	48 Reverent	mark
45	even	even	ADV	_	48 Reverent	advmod
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 Reverent	case
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 Reverent	nmod:poss
48	Reverent	Reverent	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 grown	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 didst	punct
50	didst	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 weighed	conj
51	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 didst	xcomp
52	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 pluck	obj
53	from	from	SCONJ	_	56 usurped	mark
54	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	55 place	det
55	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 usurped	nsubj
56	usurped	usurp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 pluck	advcl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 Lifting	punct
58	Lifting	lift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 usurped	advcl
59	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	62 father	nmod:poss
60	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 father	amod
61	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 father	amod
62	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 Lifting	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 immured	punct
64	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 immured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past · perfect	some God				then; time	on me	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on i=Destination
2	immure	past	sight's hand	me		my house Year after year			vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	weigh	past	sight's hand not said here	the lessening dole				to manhood; thou parataxis	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme dole=Value
4	lessen	gerund							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	grow	participle		manhood not said here	wife's Reverent				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	do	past	sight's hand not said here						tree rules
7	pluck	infinitive	sight's hand not said here	wife					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
8	usurp	past	that place						tree rules
9	lift	gerund	that place not said here	thy poor old father					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=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 11, sentence 101