The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 220

Again he sang; ‘Queen Meave to Uladh’s bound Came down; and dark the deed that grew thereof; Came down with all the hosting of her kings; And dark the deed that grew thereof.

Who acts: friend, Meave, deed · What happens: sing, come down, dark, grow · To what, where: deed

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, Meave, deed), 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	Again	again	ADV	_	3 sang	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 Came	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 Meave	punct
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Meave	nmod:desc
7	Meave	Meave	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Came	nsubj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 bound	case
9	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 bound	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Uladh	case
11	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Meave	nmod
12	Came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sang	conj
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 Came	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 dark	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dark	cc
16	dark	dark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sang	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 deed	det
18	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dark	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 grew	nsubj
20	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 deed	acl:relcl
21	thereof	thereof	ADV	_	20 grew	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 down	punct
23	Came	Came	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 down	nsubj
24	down	down	ADV	_	3 sang	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 hosting	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 hosting	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hosting	det
28	hosting	hosting	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 down	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 kings	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 kings	nmod:poss
31	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hosting	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 dark	punct
33	And	and	CCONJ	_	34 dark	cc
34	dark	dark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sang	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 deed	det
36	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dark	obj
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 grew	nsubj
38	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 deed	acl:relcl
39	thereof	thereof	ADV	_	38 grew	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	friend		again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	come down	past	Meave Queen to Uladh's bound			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dark	infinitive	friend not said here	the deed			tree rules
4	grow	past	the deed			thereof property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	dark	infinitive	friend not said here	the deed			tree rules
6	grow	past	the deed			thereof 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 13, sentence 220