The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 23

‘A year,’ she said, ‘Is past since northward to the war we marched:’ Then forth she loosed the sheets and spread the sails And bounded on the waves of proud discourse Recounting all her triumphs; first, her wrong; Lastly, the cause of war, Cuailgné’s Donn Chief captive mid her captives!

Who acts: tent, ‘, we, proud discourse · What happens: say, be, march, loose, spread, bound · To what, where: war, sheets, sails, triumphs, proud discourse · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (tent, ‘, we, proud discourse), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 year	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 year	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 year	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 past	punct
9	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 past	nsubj
10	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 past	cop
11	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
12	since	since	ADP	_	16 war	case
13	northward	northward	ADV	_	16 war	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 war	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 war	det
16	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 past	obl
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 marched	nsubj
18	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 war	acl:relcl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 loosed	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 loosed	punct
21	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 loosed	advmod
22	forth	forth	ADV	_	24 loosed	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 loosed	nsubj
24	loosed	loose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sheets	det
26	sheets	sheet	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 loosed	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 spread	cc
28	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 loosed	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sails	det
30	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 spread	obj
31	And	and	CCONJ	_	32 bounded	cc
32	bounded	bound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 spread	conj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 waves	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 waves	det
35	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 bounded	obl:agent
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 discourse	case
37	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 discourse	amod
38	discourse	discourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 waves	nmod
39	Recounting	recount	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 discourse	acl
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 triumphs	det:predet
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 triumphs	nmod:poss
42	triumphs	triumph	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 Recounting	obj
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 wrong	punct
44	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	47 wrong	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 wrong	punct
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 wrong	nmod:poss
47	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	conj
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 Lastly	punct
49	Lastly	lastly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 wrong	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 cause	punct
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 cause	det
52	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 wrong	conj
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 war	case
54	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 cause	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 Chief	punct
56	Cuailgné	Cuailgné	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Chief	nmod:poss
57	’s	's	PART	_	56 Cuailgné	case
58	Donn	Donn	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Chief	compound
59	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 cause	nmod
60	captive	captive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 Chief	amod
61	mid	mid	X	_	60 captive	parataxis
62	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 captives	nmod:poss
63	captives	captive	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 mid	obj
64	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	tent		year		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	‘		since the war	past property	tree rules
3	march	past	we	the war not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme war=Trajectory
4	loose	past	tent	the sheets	then	forth property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sheet=Patient
5	spread	past	tent not said here	the sails			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sail=Theme
6	bound	participle	tent not said here			the waves of proud discourse obl:agent	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	recount speech: other	gerund	proud discourse not said here	tent's triumphs			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent triumph=Topic
8	wave			proud discourse			nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient
9	triumph		tent				nom triumph «event intransitive»: poss=agent
10	cause			war			nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient

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 23