The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 26

Meanwhile all day in light discourse or deep The sons of Usnach and of Fergus rode, And came at eve to Fuad’s mountain-steep; But Deirdré, bent for once by sorrow’s load Though strong, behind them dropped, and on a bank Moon-lit sat down; and slumber on her sank.

Who acts: you, sons, Moon lit · What happens: deep, ride, come, bend, drop, sit down · To what, where: Deirdré, light discourse, eve, bank

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sons, Moon lit), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	8 deep	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deep	obl:unmarked
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 discourse	case
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 discourse	compound
6	discourse	discourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deep	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 deep	cc
8	deep	deep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sons	det
10	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 rode	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Usnach	case
12	Usnach	Usnach	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sons	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Fergus	cc
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Fergus	case
15	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Usnach	conj
16	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 deep	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
18	And	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 rode	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 eve	case
21	eve	eve	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	27 steep	case
23	Fuad	Fuad	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 steep	nsubj
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Fuad	case
25	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 steep	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 mountain	punct
27	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 came	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 Deirdré	punct
29	But	but	CCONJ	_	30 Deirdré	cc
30	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 deep	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bent	punct
32	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 Deirdré	acl
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 once	case
34	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 bent	obl
35	by	by	ADP	_	38 load	case
36	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 load	nmod:poss
37	’s	's	PART	_	36 sorrow	case
38	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bent	obl
39	Though	though	ADV	_	40 strong	advmod
40	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bent	advcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 dropped	punct
42	behind	behind	ADP	_	44 dropped	mark
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 dropped	nsubj
44	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 deep	parataxis
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 sat	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 sat	cc
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 bank	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 bank	det
49	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 sat	obl
50	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 lit	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 Moon	punct
52	lit	lit	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 sat	nsubj
53	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 dropped	advcl
54	down	down	ADP	_	53 sat	compound:prt
55	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 slumber	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 slumber	cc
57	slumber	slumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deep	obl
58	on	on	ADP	_	60 sank	case
59	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 sank	nmod:poss
60	sank	sank	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 slumber	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 deep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deep	imperative	you not said here	Deirdré	light discourse	day	slumber on lit's sank obl; meanwhile property	tree rules
2	ride	past	the sons of Usnach and Fergus					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	the sons of Usnach and Fergus not said here		eve		to mountain steep Fuad	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to steep=Initial_Location
4	bend	participle		Deirdré not said here			by sorrow's load	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by load=Location
5	drop	past	sons = son					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	sit down	past	Moon lit		a bank			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/6/26/

🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 26

The tree

Pragmatics

The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 26