The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 91

And ever as the wine-dark seas they clave The sons of Usnach stood upon the prow And spread their arms to Erin o’er the wave; And each to each exclaimed; ‘To guide the plough Or break the clod, still breathing Erin’s air, Were better than to rule and reign elsewhere!’

Who acts: clave · What happens: stand, spread, exclaim, guide, break, breathe · To what, where: prow, arms, Erin, each, plough, clod

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clave), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	15 stood	cc
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 clave	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	10 clave	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 seas	det
5	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dark	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 wine	punct
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seas	amod
8	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 clave	nsubj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 clave	nsubj
10	clave	clave	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	nsubj
11	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sons	det
12	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stood	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Usnach	case
14	Usnach	Usnach	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sons	nmod
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 prow	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 prow	det
18	prow	prow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	obl
19	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 spread	cc
20	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stood	conj
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 arms	nmod:poss
22	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 spread	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 Erin	case
24	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 spread	obl
25	o’er	o'er	ADP	_	27 wave	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wave	det
27	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spread	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 exclaimed	punct
29	And	and	CCONJ	_	33 exclaimed	cc
30	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	33 exclaimed	nsubj:pass
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 each	case
32	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	30 each	nmod
33	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 stood	conj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 guide	punct
35	‘	'	PUNCT	_	37 guide	punct
36	To	to	PART	_	37 guide	mark
37	guide	guide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 stood	parataxis
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 plough	det
39	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 guide	obj
40	Or	or	CCONJ	_	41 break	cc
41	break	break	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	37 guide	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 clod	det
43	clod	clod	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 break	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 breathing	punct
45	still	still	ADV	_	46 breathing	advmod
46	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 guide	conj
47	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 air	nmod:poss
48	’s	's	PART	_	47 Erin	case
49	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 breathing	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 better	punct
51	Were	were	ADV	_	52 better	advmod
52	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	46 breathing	parataxis
53	than	than	SCONJ	_	55 rule	mark
54	to	to	PART	_	55 rule	mark
55	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 better	csubj
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 reign	cc
57	reign	reign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 rule	conj
58	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	57 reign	advmod
59	!	!	PUNCT	_	37 guide	punct
60	’	'	PUNCT	_	37 guide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	clave the dark seas seas			the prow		the sons of Usnach nsubj	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon prow=Location
2	spread	past	clave the dark seas seas not said here	sons's arms	Erin			o'er the wave	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arm=Theme
3	exclaim speech: express	participle · passive		each to each					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
4	guide	to-infinitive		the plough					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plough=Theme
5	break	infinitive		the clod					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer clod=Patient
6	breathe	gerund		Erin's air			still		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme
7	rule	to-infinitive							vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	reign	infinitive						elsewhere property	tree rules

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 5, sentence 91