The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 32

And, ever o’er the wave those swans would come To hear man’s voice, and tell their tale to each, Swift as the wind, and whiter than the foam; Yet never mounted they the bowery beach, And still swerved backward from the beckoning hand, Revering thus their stepmother’s command.

Who acts: wave, waves, stepmother · What happens: come, hear, tell, not mount, swerve, beckon · To what, where: voice, tale, each, waves, beckoning hand, command · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wave, waves, stepmother), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 come	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wave	punct
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 wave	advmod
4	o’er	o'er	ADP	_	6 wave	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wave	det
6	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 swans	det
8	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wave	conj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	To	to	PART	_	12 hear	mark
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 come	xcomp
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 voice	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 man	case
15	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hear	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tell	cc
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 come	conj
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 tale	nmod:poss
20	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 each	case
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 tell	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Swift	punct
24	Swift	Swift	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obl
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 wind	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wind	det
27	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 whiter	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 whiter	cc
30	whiter	white	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 wind	conj
31	than	than	ADP	_	33 foam	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 foam	det
33	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 whiter	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 mounted	punct
35	Yet	yet	ADV	_	37 mounted	advmod
36	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	37 mounted	advmod
37	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 come	parataxis
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 mounted	obj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 beach	det
40	bowery	bowery	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 beach	compound
41	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 mounted	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 swerved	punct
43	And	and	CCONJ	_	45 swerved	cc
44	still	still	ADV	_	45 swerved	advmod
45	swerved	swerve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 mounted	conj
46	backward	backward	ADV	_	45 swerved	advmod
47	from	from	ADP	_	50 hand	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 hand	det
49	beckoning	beckon	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 hand	amod
50	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 swerved	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 Revering	punct
52	Revering	revere	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 swerved	advcl
53	thus	thus	ADV	_	57 command	advmod
54	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 stepmother	nmod:poss
55	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 command	nmod:poss
56	’s	's	PART	_	55 stepmother	case
57	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 Revering	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would	the wave and that swans						tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	the wave and that swans not said here	man's voice					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	the wave and that swans not said here	waves's tale	each			as the wind; Swift obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Topic to each=Recipient
4	not mount	participle		waves = wave			yet	the bowery beach obl	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	swerve	past				the beckoning hand	still	backward property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hand=Location
6	beckon	gerund							vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	revere	gerund		waves's stepmother's command					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
8	tell		waves = wave						nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
9	command		waves's stepmother						nom command «communication transitive»: 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 9, sentence 32