The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 93

Ah then to Naisi, and to Deirdré then Like fire the gladness of the spring-tide came: That causeway old they seemed to tread again, Sang the same song!

Who acts: gladness, tides · What happens: come, seem, tread · To what, where: old, Sang

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gladness, tides), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	19 came	discourse
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 Naisi	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Naisi	case
4	Naisi	Naisi	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ah	vocative
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Deirdré	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Deirdré	cc
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Deirdré	case
8	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Naisi	conj
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 came	advmod
10	Like	like	ADP	_	11 fire	case
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gladness	det
13	gladness	gladness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 tide	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tide	det
16	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tide	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 spring	punct
18	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gladness	nmod
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 old	punct
21	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 old	nsubj
22	causeway	causeway	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 old	obl:unmarked
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 came	obl
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 seemed	nsubj
25	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 old	acl:relcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 tread	mark
27	tread	tread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 seemed	xcomp
28	again	again	ADV	_	27 tread	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Sang	punct
30	Sang	Sang	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 tread	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 song	det
32	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 song	amod
33	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Sang	appos
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the gladness of the spring tide	old That causeway	then; then	like fire	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seem	past	tides = tide				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	tread	to-infinitive	tides = tide not said here	Sang	again		vn run-51.3.2 «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 4, sentence 93

The tree

Pragmatics

The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 93