Complex sentence: Elizabeth stands between two columns bearing her arms and the Tudor heraldic badge of a portcullis; the columns are surmounted by her personal badges of the Pelican in her Piety and the Phoenix, and ships fill the sea behind her.
Split into simpler sentences: Elizabeth stands between two columns bearing her arms and the Tudor heraldic badge of a portcullis. The columns are surmounted by her emblems of a pelican in her piety and a phoenix, and ships fill the sea behind her.