The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 82

At the dawn By hundreds girt, the great ones of his clan, Down drave he to the ford, and onward strode Trampling the last year’s branches strewn hard by That snapp’d beneath him.

Who acts: Uladh, branches · What happens: girt, stride, trample, strewn, have · To what, where: great ones, drave, branches

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 (Uladh, branches), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 dawn	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dawn	det
3	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 girt	obl
4	By	by	ADP	_	5 hundreds	case
5	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 girt	obl
6	girt	girt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ones	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ones	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 girt	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 clan	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 clan	nmod:poss
13	clan	clan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ones	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drave	punct
15	Down	down	ADV	_	16 drave	advmod
16	drave	drave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 girt	conj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 strode	nsubj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 ford	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ford	det
20	ford	ford	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 he	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 strode	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 strode	cc
23	onward	onward	ADV	_	24 strode	advmod
24	strode	stride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 drave	acl:relcl
25	Trampling	trample	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 strode	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 year	det
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 year	amod
28	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 branches	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 year	case
30	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 ’d	nsubj
31	strewn	strewn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 branches	acl
32	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 strewn	advmod
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 snapp	case
34	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 snapp	det
35	snapp	snapp	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 strewn	obl
36	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 Trampling	ccomp
37	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 ’d	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 girt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	girt	present		the great ones of Uladh's clan	dawn	by hundreds; drave conj	tree rules
2	stride	past	Uladh	drave not said here		onward property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme drave=Trajectory
3	trample	gerund	Uladh not said here				tree rules
4	strewn	participle		the last year's branches not said here		by that snapp; hard property	tree rules
5	have	past	the last year's branches			beneath Uladh	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 12, sentence 82