The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 59

There anguish fell on them: they heard the booming Of league-long breakers white, and gazed on waves Wreck-strewn, themselves entombed, and all-entombing, Rolling to labyrinths dim of red-roofed caves; And streaming waters broad, as with one will In cataracts from gray shelves descending still.

Who acts: lake, gray shelves · What happens: be, fall, hear, gaze, entomb, roll · To what, where: There, booming, labyrinths

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, gray shelves), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 fell	expl
2	anguish	anguish	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 There	cop
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fell	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 booming	det
10	booming	booming	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obj
11	Of	of	ADP	_	15 breakers	case
12	league	league	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 long	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 league	punct
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 breakers	amod
15	breakers	breaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 booming	nmod
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 breakers	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gazed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gazed	cc
19	gazed	gaze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fell	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 waves	case
21	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 gazed	obl:agent
22	Wreck	Wreck	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 waves	obj
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 Wreck	punct
24	strewn	strewn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 gazed	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 entombed	punct
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 entombed	nsubj
27	entombed	entomb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 entombing	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 entombing	cc
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 entombing	advmod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 all	punct
32	entombing	entomb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 entombed	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Rolling	punct
34	Rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 entombing	advcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 labyrinths	case
36	labyrinths	labyrinth	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 Rolling	obj
37	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 labyrinths	amod
38	of	of	ADP	_	42 caves	case
39	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 roofed	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 red	punct
41	roofed	roof	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 caves	amod
42	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 dim	obl
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 waters	punct
44	And	and	CCONJ	_	46 waters	cc
45	streaming	stream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 waters	nsubj
46	waters	water	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
47	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 waters	xcomp
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 one	punct
49	as	as	ADP	_	51 one	case
50	with	with	ADP	_	51 one	case
51	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 waters	parataxis
52	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 one	acl:relcl
53	In	in	ADP	_	54 cataracts	case
54	cataracts	cataract	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 will	obl
55	from	from	ADP	_	57 shelves	case
56	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 shelves	compound
57	shelves	shelf	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 cataracts	nmod
58	descending	descend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	57 shelves	acl
59	still	still	ADV	_	58 descending	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		There				tree rules
2	fall	past			there		on lake	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on they=Location
3	hear	past	lake	the booming of long breakers				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer booming=Stimulus
4	gaze	participle					waves Wreck obl:agent; strewn property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	entomb	past	lake					tree rules
6	entomb	gerund	lake not said here					tree rules
7	roll	gerund	lake not said here	labyrinths				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent labyrinth=Agent
8	roof	participle						vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
9	stream	gerund						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	water	present					one parataxis; broad property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
11	descend	gerund	gray shelves not said here			still		vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: 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 59