The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 78

One time it chanced that, onward as they drifted Where Banna’s current joins that stormy sea, A princely company with banners lifted Rode past on snow-white steeds and sang for glee: At once they knew those horsemen, form and face, Their native stock--Tuatha’s ancient race!

Who acts: heart, growths, current, stormy sea, Tuatha · What happens: chance, drift, join, lift, sing, know · To what, where: that, Rode, white steeds, horsemen

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 (heart, growths, current, stormy sea), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 time	nummod
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chanced	obl:unmarked
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chanced	nsubj
4	chanced	chance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 chanced	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drifted	punct
7	onward	onward	ADV	_	10 drifted	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 drifted	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 drifted	nsubj
10	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chanced	conj
11	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 joins	advmod
12	Banna	Banna	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 current	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 Banna	case
14	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 joins	nsubj
15	joins	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 drifted	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 lifted	mark
17	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sea	amod
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lifted	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 company	punct
20	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 company	det
21	princely	princely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 company	amod
22	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sea	appos
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 banners	case
24	banners	banner	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 company	nmod
25	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 joins	advcl
26	Rode	Rode	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 lifted	obj
27	past	past	ADP	_	32 steeds	case
28	on	on	ADP	_	32 steeds	case
29	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 white	obl
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 snow	punct
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 steeds	amod
32	steeds	steed	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lifted	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sang	cc
34	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lifted	conj
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 glee	case
36	glee	glee	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sang	obl
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 knew	punct
38	At	at	ADP	_	39 once	case
39	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	41 knew	obl
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 knew	nsubj
41	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chanced	parataxis
42	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	43 horsemen	det
43	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 knew	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 form	punct
45	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 horsemen	appos
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 face	cc
47	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 form	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 stock	punct
49	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 stock	nmod:poss
50	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 stock	amod
51	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 knew	obl
52	--	--	PUNCT	_	56 race	punct
53	Tuatha	Tuatha	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 race	nmod:poss
54	’s	's	PART	_	53 Tuatha	case
55	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 race	amod
56	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 stock	appos
57	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 chanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chance	past	heart	that		time		vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Pivot
2	drift	past	growths = growth				onward property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	join	present	Banna's current					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	lift	past	stormy sea	Rode	white steeds			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rode=Theme past steed=Destination
5	sing speech: express	past	stormy sea not said here				for glee	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for glee=Recipient
6	know	past	growths = growth	that horsemen			growths's native stock obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer horseman=Stimulus
7	stock		growths = growth					nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent
8	race		Tuatha					nom race «event intransitive»: 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 78