The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 56

But, forward as they toiled, that flood ere long Deepened, so seemed it, to a billowy sea; And they, with arms in swimmer’s act forth flung, Clave that imagined deep.

Who acts: hills, that, Clave, swimmer · What happens: toil, flood, deepen, seem, fling, imagine · To what, where: plain, Clave

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hills, that, Clave, swimmer), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 toiled	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 toiled	punct
3	forward	forward	ADV	_	6 toiled	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 toiled	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 toiled	nsubj
6	toiled	toil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flood	punct
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 flood	nsubj
9	flood	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 toiled	conj
10	ere	ere	ADV	_	11 long	advmod
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 Deepened	advmod
12	Deepened	deepen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 flood	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seemed	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 seemed	advmod
15	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 toiled	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seemed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sea	punct
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 sea	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sea	det
20	billowy	billowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sea	amod
21	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seemed	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 flung	punct
23	And	and	CCONJ	_	33 flung	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 flung	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 arms	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 arms	case
27	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 they	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 act	case
29	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 act	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 swimmer	case
31	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 arms	nmod
32	forth	forth	ADV	_	33 flung	advmod
33	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 toiled	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Clave	punct
35	Clave	clave	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 flung	obj
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 imagined	nsubj
37	imagined	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 Clave	acl:relcl
38	deep	deep	ADV	_	37 imagined	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 toiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	toil	past	hills = hill		forward property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	flood	present	that			tree rules
3	deepen	participle	that not said here		long property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	seem	past		plain	to a billowy sea	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute
5	fling	past	hills = hill	Clave	forth property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clave=Theme
6	imagine	past	Clave		deep property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	act		swimmer			nom act «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 7, sentence 56