The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 105

Yet sad at heart that eve Cuchullain clomb His wonted rock, and faint with loss of blood, And mused; ‘My strength must lessen day by day;’ And northward gazed, thus murmuring; ‘All too late To save the land those Red Branch Knights will come When I am dead-- My war-car, and my war-steeds are far off And I am here alone.’

Who acts: that, strength, those, I, war steeds · What happens: clomb, wont, muse, lessen, gaze, murmur · To what, where: land

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, strength, those, I), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	2 sad	cc
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 heart	case
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sad	obl
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 clomb	nsubj
6	eve	eve	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clomb	compound
7	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 clomb	compound
8	clomb	clomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heart	conj
9	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 rock	nmod:poss
10	wonted	wont	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 rock	amod
11	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clomb	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 faint	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 faint	cc
14	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clomb	parataxis
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 loss	case
16	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 faint	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 blood	case
18	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 loss	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mused	punct
20	And	and	CCONJ	_	21 mused	cc
21	mused	muse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 clomb	parataxis
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 lessen	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 lessen	punct
24	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 strength	nmod:poss
25	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lessen	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 lessen	aux
27	lessen	lessen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 mused	ccomp
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lessen	obl:unmarked
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 day	case
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lessen	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 gazed	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	35 gazed	punct
33	And	and	CCONJ	_	35 gazed	cc
34	northward	northward	ADV	_	35 gazed	advmod
35	gazed	gaze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 mused	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 murmuring	punct
37	thus	thus	ADV	_	38 murmuring	advmod
38	murmuring	murmur	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 gazed	conj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 late	punct
40	‘	'	PUNCT	_	43 late	punct
41	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 late	nsubj
42	too	too	ADV	_	43 late	advmod
43	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sad	parataxis
44	To	to	PART	_	45 save	mark
45	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 come	advcl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 land	det
47	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 save	obj
48	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	53 come	nsubj
49	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 Branch	flat
50	Branch	Branch	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 Knights	compound
51	Knights	Knight	PROPN	Number=Plur	48 those	nmod
52	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 come	aux
53	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 late	parataxis
54	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	57 dead	advmod
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 dead	nsubj
56	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 dead	cop
57	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 come	advcl
58	--	--	PUNCT	_	62 car	punct
59	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 car	nmod:poss
60	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 car	compound
61	-	-	PUNCT	_	60 war	punct
62	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 come	conj
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 off	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 off	cc
65	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	68 steeds	nmod:poss
66	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 steeds	compound
67	-	-	PUNCT	_	66 war	punct
68	steeds	steed	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 off	nsubj
69	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	71 off	cop
70	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	71 off	advmod
71	off	off	ADV	_	2 sad	parataxis
72	And	and	CCONJ	_	75 here	cc
73	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	75 here	nsubj
74	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	75 here	cop
75	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	71 off	conj
76	alone	alone	ADV	_	75 here	advmod
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sad	punct
78	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	clomb		that			friend's wonted rock appos	tree rules
2	wont	participle					tree rules
3	muse	past					tree rules
4	lessen	must	My strength		day		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	gaze	participle				northward property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	murmur speech: other	gerund				thus property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	save	to-infinitive	those Branch Knights not said here	the land			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme
8	come	future	those Branch Knights			My war car conj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is	present	I			dead property	tree rules
10	is	present	my war steeds			far, off property	tree rules
11	is	present	I			alone, here property	tree rules

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 12, sentence 105