The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 139

As the spring, When the first spray catches the amorous red, Her song-bird sends, herald and harbinger, So Uladh sends before her onward steps Her shrill-voiced vanguard: men of might are they, Hewers of war-ways for her battle cars Advancing through the forests.

Who acts: first spray, song bird, Uladh, men, battle cars · What happens: catch, send, step, voice, be, advance · To what, where: amorous red, herald, shrill voiced vanguard, Hewers, forests

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first spray, song bird, Uladh, men), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 spring	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spring	det
3	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sends	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 spring	punct
5	When	when	SCONJ	_	9 catches	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spray	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 spray	amod
8	spray	spray	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 catches	nsubj
9	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 sends	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 red	det
11	amorous	amorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 red	amod
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 catches	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sends	punct
14	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 bird	nmod:poss
15	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bird	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 song	punct
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sends	nsubj
18	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 herald	punct
20	herald	herald	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sends	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 harbinger	cc
22	harbinger	harbinger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 herald	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sends	punct
24	So	so	ADV	_	26 sends	advmod
25	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 sends	nsubj
26	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 sends	conj
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	30 steps	mark
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 steps	nsubj
29	onward	onward	ADV	_	30 steps	advmod
30	steps	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 sends	ccomp
31	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 vanguard	nmod:poss
32	shrill	shrill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 vanguard	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 shrill	punct
34	voiced	voice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 vanguard	amod
35	vanguard	vanguard	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 steps	obj
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 men	punct
37	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 Hewers	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 might	case
39	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 men	conj
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 Hewers	cop
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 Hewers	nsubj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 Hewers	punct
43	Hewers	hewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sends	parataxis
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 ways	case
45	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 ways	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 war	punct
47	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 Hewers	nmod
48	for	for	ADP	_	51 cars	case
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 cars	nmod:poss
50	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 cars	compound
51	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 ways	nmod
52	Advancing	advance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 cars	acl
53	through	through	ADP	_	55 forests	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 forests	det
55	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 Advancing	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 sends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	the first spray	the amorous red				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent red=Theme
2	send	present	spray's song bird	herald and harbinger		spring		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herald=Theme
3	send	present	Uladh					tree rules
4	step	present	Uladh	spray's shrill voiced vanguard			onward property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location vanguard=Theme
5	voice speech: other	participle						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	men	Hewers			of war ways for spray's battle cars; birds = bird nsubj	tree rules
7	advance	gerund	spray's battle cars not said here		the forests			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through forest=Initial_Location

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 15, sentence 139