The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 19

His wounds were deep: Deeper his grief; and stronger thence their power Though dead, that clan accursed of Cailitin, With ghostly spells darkening the warrior’s heart: As lie the dead, he lay.

Who acts: wounds, ghostly spells, As, Cuchullain · What happens: be, accurs, darken, lie, wound · To what, where: clan, heart, dead

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wounds, ghostly spells, As, Cuchullain), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wounds	nmod:poss
2	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 deep	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 deep	cop
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Deeper	punct
6	Deeper	Deeper	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 deep	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 grief	nmod:poss
8	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Deeper	appos
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 power	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 power	cc
11	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 power	amod
12	thence	thence	ADV	_	14 power	advmod
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 power	nmod:poss
14	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deep	conj
15	Though	though	ADV	_	16 dead	advmod
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 power	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 clan	punct
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 clan	det
19	clan	clan	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 power	conj
20	accursed	accurs	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 clan	acl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Cailitin	case
22	Cailitin	Cailitin	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 accursed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 spells	punct
24	With	with	ADP	_	26 spells	case
25	ghostly	ghostly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 spells	amod
26	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 accursed	obl
27	darkening	darken	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 spells	acl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 warrior	det
29	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 heart	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 warrior	case
31	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 darkening	obj
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 lie	punct
33	As	A	PROPN	Number=Plur	34 lie	nsubj
34	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 deep	parataxis
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dead	det
36	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 lie	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 lay	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 lay	nsubj
39	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 lie	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 deep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Cuchullain's wounds		Deeper conj; wounds's stronger power and that clan conj; deep property	tree rules
2	accurs	participle		that clan not said here	of Cailitin; with ghostly spells	tree rules
3	darken	gerund	ghostly spells not said here	the warrior's heart		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
4	lie	present	As	the dead		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dead=Theme
5	lie	past	Cuchullain			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wound		Cuchullain			nom wound «state transitive»: poss=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 14, sentence 19