The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 105

Thus speaking, with both hands Deftly he spread them wide; and Saltain slept: Then, tethering first the horses of his sire, Lastly his own, upon the chill, wet grass He likewise lay, and slept not.

Who acts: hand, Saltain · What happens: speak, spread, sleep, tether, lie, not sleep · To what, where: wits, horses, wet grass · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (hand, Saltain), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 speaking	advmod
2	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 spread	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 speaking	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 hands	det
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spread	obl
7	Deftly	deftly	ADV	_	9 spread	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spread	nsubj
9	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spread	obj
11	wide	wide	ADV	_	9 spread	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 slept	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 slept	cc
14	Saltain	Saltain	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 slept	nsubj
15	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spread	parataxis
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 tethering	punct
17	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 tethering	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tethering	punct
19	tethering	tether	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 slept	advcl
20	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 horses	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 horses	det
22	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tethering	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 sire	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sire	nmod:poss
25	sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 horses	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Lastly	punct
27	Lastly	lastly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 horses	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 own	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Lastly	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 chill	punct
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 chill	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 chill	det
33	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tethering	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 grass	punct
35	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 grass	amod
36	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 chill	appos
37	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 lay	nsubj
38	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	39 lay	advmod
39	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 grass	acl:relcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 slept	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 slept	cc
42	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 slept	conj
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 slept	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund	hand not said here			thus property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spread	past	hand	wits = wit		with both hands; deftly, wide property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with hand=Theme
3	sleep	past	Saltain				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tether	gerund	Saltain not said here	the horses of Saltain's sire	then	upon the chill	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	lie	past	hand	wet grass not said here		likewise property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grass=Theme
6	not sleep	past	Saltain not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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 11, sentence 105