The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 48

What time, forth sliding from the Eternal Gates, The centuries three on earth had lived and died, Thus spake Finola to her snowy mates, ‘No more in this soft haven may we bide: The second Woe succeeds; that heavier toil On Alba’s waves, the black sea-strait of Moyle.’

Who acts: time, three, No, second Woe, Alba · What happens: slide, live, die, speak, bide, succeed · To what, where: Eternal Gates, Finola, time · 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 (time, three, No, second Woe), 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sliding	punct
4	forth	forth	ADV	_	5 sliding	advmod
5	sliding	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 time	acl
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 Gates	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Gates	det
8	Eternal	Eternal	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Gates	compound
9	Gates	Gates	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 lived	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 centuries	punct
11	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 centuries	det
12	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lived	obl:unmarked
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 lived	nsubj
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 earth	case
15	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lived	obl
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lived	aux
17	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 sliding	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 died	cc
19	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lived	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spake	punct
21	Thus	thus	ADV	_	22 spake	advmod
22	spake	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 died	advcl
23	Finola	Finola	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 spake	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 mates	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mates	nmod:poss
26	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mates	amod
27	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 spake	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 bide	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	38 bide	punct
30	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 bide	nsubj:outer
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 No	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 haven	case
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 haven	det
34	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 haven	amod
35	haven	haven	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 more	obl
36	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 bide	aux
37	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 bide	nsubj
38	bide	bide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 spake	conj
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	43 succeeds	punct
40	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Woe	det
41	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	42 Woe	amod
42	Woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 succeeds	nsubj
43	succeeds	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 bide	conj
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 toil	punct
45	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 toil	det
46	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	47 toil	amod
47	toil	toil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 time	appos
48	On	on	ADP	_	51 waves	case
49	Alba	Alba	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 waves	nmod:poss
50	’s	's	PART	_	49 Alba	case
51	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 toil	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 strait	punct
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 strait	det
54	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 strait	amod
55	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 strait	compound
56	-	-	PUNCT	_	55 sea	punct
57	strait	strait	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 toil	appos
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 Moyle	case
59	Moyle	Moyle	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 strait	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	57 strait	punct
61	’	'	PUNCT	_	47 toil	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	gerund	what time not said here				forth property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past · perfect	three		the Eternal Gates	century	on earth	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location
3	die	past	three not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	speak speech: other	infinitive	three not said here	Finola			to Finola's snowy mates; thus property	tree rules
5	bide	may	No				we nsubj	tree rules
6	succeed	present	the second Woe					vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	wave		Alba					nom wave «event 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 48