The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 59

Therefore next morn when earliest sunrise smote Green mead to golden near the full-fed stream, They caught four steeds that grazed thereby remote, And yoked abreast beside the chariot beam; And when the sun was sinking toward the West By Darvra’s lake drew rein, and made their rest.

Who acts: earliest sunrise, vaults, four steeds, sun, sinking · What happens: smite, feed, catch, graze, yoke, sink · To what, where: Green mead, fed stream, four steeds, chariot beam, rein, rest

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earliest sunrise, vaults, four steeds, sun), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 morn	advmod
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morn	amod
3	morn	morn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 smote	advmod
5	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 sunrise	amod
6	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smote	nsubj
7	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 morn	acl:relcl
8	Green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mead	amod
9	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smote	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 golden	case
11	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 smote	obl
12	near	near	ADP	_	17 stream	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stream	det
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fed	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 full	punct
16	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 stream	amod
17	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smote	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 caught	punct
19	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 caught	nsubj
20	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 smote	parataxis
21	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 steeds	nummod
22	steeds	steed	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 caught	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 grazed	nsubj
24	grazed	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 steeds	acl:relcl
25	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	26 remote	advmod
26	remote	remote	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grazed	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 yoked	punct
28	And	and	CCONJ	_	29 yoked	cc
29	yoked	yoke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 caught	conj
30	abreast	abreast	ADV	_	29 yoked	advmod
31	beside	beside	ADP	_	34 beam	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 beam	det
33	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 beam	compound
34	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 yoked	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 drew	punct
36	And	and	CCONJ	_	41 sinking	cc
37	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	41 sinking	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sun	det
39	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sinking	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 sinking	aux
41	sinking	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 drew	csubj
42	toward	toward	ADP	_	44 West	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 West	det
44	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 sinking	obl
45	By	by	ADP	_	48 lake	case
46	Darvra	Darvra	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 lake	nmod:poss
47	’s	's	PART	_	46 Darvra	case
48	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sinking	obl
49	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 morn	parataxis
50	rein	rein	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 drew	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 made	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 made	cc
53	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 drew	conj
54	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 rest	nmod:poss
55	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 made	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 morn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	smite	past	earliest sunrise	Green mead	the fed stream	to golden result	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent mead=Patient to golden=Result
2	feed	participle					vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	catch	past	vaults = vault	four steeds			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Theme
4	graze	past	four steeds			remote property	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	yoke	past	vaults = vault not said here		the chariot beam	abreast property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	sink	past · progressive	the sun			toward the West; by Darvra's lake	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	draw	past	sinking	rein			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme
8	make	past	sinking not said here	vaults's rest			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rest=Product

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 8, sentence 59