The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 67
And thus she made the lay, and thus she sang: ‘Baptize us, priest, while living yet we be!’
Who acts: Finola, we · What happens: make, sing, baptize, live, be · To what, where: lay, us
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Finola, we), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 made | cc |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lay | det |
| 6 | lay | lay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sang | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sang | cc |
| 9 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 11 sang | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sang | nsubj |
| 11 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Baptize | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Baptize | punct |
| 14 | Baptize | baptize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sang | xcomp |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 Baptize | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 priest | punct |
| 17 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Baptize | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 living | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 living | mark |
| 20 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sang | advcl |
| 21 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 20 living | advmod |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 be | nsubj |
| 23 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 living | parataxis |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 be | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Finola | the lay | thus property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lay=Product | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | Finola | thus property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | baptize | infinitive | Finola not said here | us | priest obl | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Result | |||
| 4 | live | gerund | Finola not said here | yet | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | be | infinitive | we | vn exist-47.1 «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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