The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 71

Sudden from heaven Eclipse there fell on Ai’s spacious plains, And shadow black; these noting, Meave revolved That dread Red Branch in act and counsel one; And, brooding thus, with inner eye she saw No longer men but skeletons of men Innumerable in intertangled mass Burthening the fields far spread.

Who acts: Sudden heaven Eclipse, these, Meave, That, Eclipse, intertangled mass · What happens: fall, note, revolve, dread, counsel, brood · To what, where: spacious plains, Red Branch, act, one, men, inner eye

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 (Sudden heaven Eclipse, these, Meave, That), 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	Sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Eclipse	amod
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 heaven	case
3	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Eclipse	compound
4	Eclipse	eclipse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	nsubj
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 fell	advmod
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 plains	case
8	Ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plains	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Ai	case
10	spacious	spacious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plains	amod
11	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fell	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 black	punct
13	And	and	CCONJ	_	15 black	cc
14	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 black	obl:unmarked
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fell	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 noting	punct
17	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 noting	nsubj
18	noting	note	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 fell	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 revolved	punct
20	Meave	Meave	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 revolved	nsubj
21	revolved	revolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 noting	conj
22	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 dread	nsubj
23	dread	dread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 revolved	ccomp
24	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Branch	flat
25	Branch	Branch	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 dread	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 act	case
27	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dread	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 counsel	cc
29	counsel	counsel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 dread	conj
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 counsel	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 brooding	punct
32	And	and	CCONJ	_	34 brooding	cc
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 brooding	punct
34	brooding	brood	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 fell	advcl
35	thus	thus	ADV	_	34 brooding	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 eye	punct
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 eye	case
38	inner	inner	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 eye	amod
39	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 brooding	obl
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 saw	nsubj
41	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 eye	acl:relcl
42	No	no	ADV	_	43 longer	advmod
43	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	44 men	advmod
44	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 brooding	obl
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 skeletons	cc
46	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 men	conj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 men	case
48	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 skeletons	nmod
49	Innumerable	Innumerable	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 men	appos
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 mass	case
51	intertangled	intertangl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 mass	amod
52	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 Innumerable	nmod
53	Burthening	burthen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 mass	acl
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 fields	det
55	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 spread	nsubj
56	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	57 spread	advmod
57	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 Burthening	ccomp
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Sudden heaven Eclipse		Ai's spacious plains; there		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on plain=Location
2	note	gerund	these				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	revolve	past	Meave				tree rules
4	dread	present	That	Red Branch	act		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer branch=Stimulus
5	counsel speech: other	infinitive	That not said here	one			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
6	brood	gerund	Sudden heaven Eclipse not said here	men but skeletons of men		with inner eye; thus property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	see	past	Eclipse	inner eye not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus
8	intertangl	participle					tree rules
9	burthen	gerund	intertangled mass not said here				tree rules
10	spread	present	the fields			far property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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 11, sentence 71