The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 28

He spake, and lifted high his Druid Wand:-- T’ward him perforce she drew: she bowed her head: Down on that head he dropp’d it; and beyond The glooming lake, with bat-like wings outspread O’er earth’s black verge the shrieking Fury passed; Thenceforth to circle earth while earth shall last.

Who acts: spake, Wand, shape, like wings, Fury, earth · What happens: lift, draw, bow, have, gloom, outspread · To what, where: Druid Wand, T’ward perforce, head, dropp, black verge, earth

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spake, Wand, shape, like wings), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spake	nsubj
2	spake	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lifted	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lifted	cc
5	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spake	acl:relcl
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lifted	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 Wand	nmod:poss
8	Druid	Druid	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Wand	compound
9	Wand	Wand	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lifted	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 spake	punct
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 perforce	punct
12	T’ward	T'ward	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 perforce	compound
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 T’ward	flat
14	perforce	perforce	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spake	conj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drew	nsubj
16	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 perforce	acl:relcl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 bowed	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bowed	nsubj
19	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spake	conj
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bowed	obj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 ’d	punct
23	Down	down	ADV	_	29 ’d	advmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 head	case
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 head	det
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ’d	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ’d	nsubj
28	dropp	dropp	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ’d	nsubj
29	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spake	parataxis
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ’d	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 lake	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 lake	cc
33	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	36 lake	case
34	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 lake	det
35	glooming	gloom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 lake	amod
36	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 outspread	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 wings	punct
38	with	with	ADP	_	42 wings	case
39	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 like	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 bat	punct
41	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 wings	amod
42	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 outspread	nsubj
43	outspread	outspread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 ’d	conj
44	O’er	O'er	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 earth	compound
45	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 verge	nmod:poss
46	’s	's	PART	_	45 earth	case
47	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 verge	amod
48	verge	verge	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 outspread	obj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 shrieking	det
50	shrieking	shriek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 outspread	advcl
51	Fury	Fury	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 passed	nsubj
52	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 shrieking	ccomp
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 circle	punct
54	Thenceforth	thenceforth	ADV	_	56 circle	advmod
55	to	to	PART	_	56 circle	mark
56	circle	circle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 ’d	conj
57	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 circle	obj
58	while	while	SCONJ	_	61 last	mark
59	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 last	nsubj
60	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 last	aux
61	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 circle	advcl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift	past	spake shape and T’ward perforce not said here	shape's Druid Wand		high property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Theme
2	draw	past	Wand	T’ward perforce not said here			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perforce=Theme
3	bow	past	Wand	Wand's head			vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
4	have	past	shape	dropp	that head	down property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	gloom	gerund					tree rules
6	outspread	present	like wings	O’er earth's black verge		beyond the glooming lake	tree rules
7	shriek	gerund	like wings not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	pass	past	Fury				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	circle	to-infinitive	shape not said here	earth		thenceforth property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme
10	last	shall	earth				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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 9, sentence 28