The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 56

Thus singing, mid their dirge the sentenced soared Heaven-high; then hanging mute on plumes outspread, With downcast eye long time that lake explored; And lastly with a great cry northward sped: Then was it Erin’s sons, listening that cry, Decreed: ‘The man who slays a swan shall die.’

Who acts: lake, mute, sons, man · What happens: sing, sentence, soar, hang, explore, speed · To what, where: Heaven, mute, plumes, eye long time, sons, cry

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 (lake, mute, sons, man), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 singing	advmod
2	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 mid	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 singing	punct
4	mid	mid	X	_	9 soared	advmod
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dirge	nmod:poss
6	dirge	dirge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mid	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sentenced	det
8	sentenced	sentence	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 mid	goeswith
9	soared	soar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 soared	obj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Heaven	punct
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 soared	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 hanging	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 hanging	advmod
15	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 soared	advcl
16	mute	mute	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hanging	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 plumes	case
18	plumes	plume	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hanging	obl
19	outspread	outspread	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hanging	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 time	punct
21	With	with	ADP	_	25 time	case
22	downcast	downcast	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eye	compound
23	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 time	compound
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 time	amod
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hanging	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 explored	obj
27	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 explored	nsubj
28	explored	explore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 time	acl:relcl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 sped	punct
30	And	and	CCONJ	_	31 lastly	cc
31	lastly	lastly	ADV	_	37 sped	advmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 cry	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 cry	det
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 cry	amod
35	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sped	obl
36	northward	northward	ADV	_	37 sped	advmod
37	sped	speed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 soared	parataxis
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	44 sons	punct
39	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 sons	advmod
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 sons	cop
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 sons	nsubj
42	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 sons	nmod:poss
43	’s	's	PART	_	42 Erin	case
44	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 sped	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 listening	punct
46	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 sons	acl
47	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 cry	det
48	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 listening	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 Decreed	punct
50	Decreed	Decreed	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 sons	nmod
51	:	:	PUNCT	_	60 die	punct
52	‘	'	PUNCT	_	60 die	punct
53	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 man	det
54	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 die	nsubj
55	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 slays	nsubj
56	slays	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 man	acl:relcl
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 swan	det
58	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 slays	obj
59	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 die	aux
60	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 sped	ccomp
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	60 die	punct
62	’	'	PUNCT	_	60 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund					thus property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sentence	participle						tree rules
3	soar	past		Heaven			high property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme heaven=Result
4	hang	gerund		mute	plumes	then; time	outspread property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mute=Theme on plume=Destination
5	explore	past	lake	eye long time				vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent that=Location
6	speed	past					with a great cry; lastly, northward property	tree rules
7	is a	past	mute	Erin's sons		then	Decreed nmod; Erin nmod:poss	tree rules
8	listen	gerund	Erin's sons not said here	that cry				tree rules
9	slay	present	the man	a swan				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swan=Patient
10	die	shall	the man					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 56