The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 66

Alone, girt round by hostile rank on rank, Usnach’s great sons, unvanquished, still fought on; And ever when their arms exhausted sank, And for a moment strength was all but gone, Deirdré, amidst them, like a prophet poured Her war-songs forth, and still their strength restored.

Who acts: you, arms, prophet, strength · What happens: girt, fight on, exhaust, sink, be, pour · To what, where: arms, war songs

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 (you, arms, prophet, strength), 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	Alone	alone	ADV	_	3 girt	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Alone	punct
3	girt	girt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADV	_	3 girt	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 rank	case
6	hostile	hostile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rank	amod
7	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 girt	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 rank	case
9	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rank	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sons	punct
11	Usnach	Usnach	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 sons	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 Usnach	case
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sons	amod
14	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rank	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 unvanquished	punct
16	unvanquished	unvanquished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sons	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fought	punct
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 fought	advmod
19	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 unvanquished	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	19 fought	compound:prt
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 sank	punct
22	And	and	CCONJ	_	28 sank	cc
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 sank	advmod
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 sank	advmod
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 arms	nmod:poss
26	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sank	nsubj
27	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 arms	acl
28	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 girt	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 gone	punct
30	And	and	CCONJ	_	38 gone	cc
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 strength	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 strength	det
33	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 strength	compound
34	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gone	obl
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 gone	cop
36	all	all	ADV	_	38 gone	advmod
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 gone	cc
38	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girt	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Deirdré	punct
40	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 gone	vocative
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 them	punct
42	amidst	amidst	ADP	_	43 them	case
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 gone	advcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 poured	punct
45	like	like	SCONJ	_	48 poured	mark
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 prophet	det
47	prophet	prophet	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 poured	nsubj
48	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 gone	parataxis
49	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 songs	nmod:poss
50	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 songs	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 war	punct
52	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 poured	obj
53	forth	forth	ADV	_	48 poured	advmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 restored	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 restored	cc
56	still	still	ADV	_	58 strength	advmod
57	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 strength	nmod:poss
58	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 restored	nsubj
59	restored	restore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 poured	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 girt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	girt	imperative	you not said here			by hostile rank on rank; alone, round property	tree rules
2	fight on	participle	you not said here		still		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	exhaust	participle		sheep's arms not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	sink	past	sheep's arms		ever		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is	past				for a moment strength; Deirdré vocative; sheep advcl; all, gone property	tree rules
6	pour	past	a prophet	prophet's war songs		forth property	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Patient
7	restore	participle	sheep's strength				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
8	sing		prophet				nom song «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 66