The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 4

But Lir knelt down upon the shining sand, And cried, ‘Though great the might of Druid charms, Return and feel once more your native land, And find once more and fill your father’s arms!’

Who acts: Lir · What happens: kneel down, shine, cry, feel, find, fill · To what, where: shining sand, arms

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 (Lir), 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	_	3 knelt	cc
2	Lir	Lir	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 knelt	nsubj
3	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 knelt	advmod
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 sand	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sand	det
7	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 sand	amod
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knelt	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
10	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 cried	cc
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knelt	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 great	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 great	punct
14	Though	though	SCONJ	_	15 great	mark
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cried	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 charms	det
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 charms	aux
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 charms	case
19	Druid	Druid	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 charms	compound
20	charms	charm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 great	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Return	punct
22	Return	Return	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 charms	appos
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 feel	cc
24	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	conj
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 more	advmod
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 feel	advmod
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 land	nmod:poss
28	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 land	amod
29	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 more	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 find	punct
31	And	and	CCONJ	_	32 find	cc
32	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 knelt	conj
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	34 more	advmod
34	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 find	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 fill	cc
36	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 find	conj
37	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 father	nmod:poss
38	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 arms	nmod:poss
39	’s	's	PART	_	38 father	case
40	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 fill	obj
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 knelt	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 knelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kneel down	past	Lir		the shining sand	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon sand=Location
2	shine	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	feel	present					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	find	present	Lir not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	fill	infinitive	Lir not said here	your father's arms			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient

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 4