The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 80

‘Whilome in purple clad we sat elate: The warriors watched us at their nut-brown mead: But now we roam the waters desolate, Or breast the languid beds of waving weed: Our food was then fine bread; our drink was wine: This day on sea-plants sour we peak and pine.

Who acts: Whilome, we, warriors, waters, food, drink · What happens: clad, elate, watch, roam, desolate, breast · To what, where: us, brown mead, languid beds, fine bread, wine, we

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 (Whilome, we, warriors, waters), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Whilome	punct
2	Whilome	Whilome	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 clad	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 purple	case
4	purple	purple	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Whilome	nmod
5	clad	clad	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 elate	nsubj
7	sat	sat	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 elate	aux
8	elate	elate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 clad	ccomp
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 watched	punct
10	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 warriors	det
11	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 watched	nsubj
12	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clad	conj
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 watched	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	19 mead	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mead	nmod:poss
16	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 brown	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 nut	punct
18	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mead	amod
19	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 watched	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 roam	punct
21	But	but	CCONJ	_	24 roam	cc
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 roam	advmod
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 roam	nsubj
24	roam	roam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clad	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 waters	det
26	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 desolate	nsubj
27	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 roam	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 breast	punct
29	Or	or	CCONJ	_	30 breast	cc
30	breast	breast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 roam	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 beds	det
32	languid	languid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 beds	amod
33	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 breast	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 weed	case
35	waving	waving	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 weed	compound
36	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 beds	nmod
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	43 bread	punct
38	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 food	nmod:poss
39	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 bread	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 bread	cop
41	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 fine	advmod
42	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 bread	amod
43	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 roam	obl
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 wine	punct
45	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 drink	nmod:poss
46	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 wine	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 wine	cop
48	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 bread	conj
49	:	:	PUNCT	_	56 sour	punct
50	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 day	det
51	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 sour	obl:unmarked
52	on	on	ADP	_	55 plants	case
53	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 plants	compound
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 sea	punct
55	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 day	nmod
56	sour	sour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 wine	conj
57	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 sour	obj
58	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 sour	obj
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 pine	cc
60	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 peak	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 clad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clad	past	Whilome in purple					tree rules
2	elate		we					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	watch	past	the warriors	us	warriors's brown mead			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
4	roam	present	we			now		tree rules
5	desolate	infinitive	the waters					tree rules
6	breast	infinitive	we not said here	the languid beds of waving weed				vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme
7	is a	past	Our food	fine bread and wine		then		tree rules
8	is a	past	our drink	wine				tree rules
9	sour	present	our drink not said here	we		day	peak and pine obj	tree rules

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 80