The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 73

There lying, loud they raised the self-same cry, As Patrick o’er them signed the conquering Sign, ‘Baptize us, holy Tailkenn, for we die!’

Who acts: speech, Patrick, we · What happens: lie, raise, sign, conquer, baptize, die · To what, where: same cry, conquering Sign, 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 (speech, Patrick, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 lying	expl
2	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 raised	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 loud	punct
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lying	conj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 raised	nsubj
6	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cry	det
8	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 same	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 self	punct
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cry	amod
11	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 raised	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 signed	punct
13	As	as	SCONJ	_	17 signed	mark
14	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 signed	nsubj
15	o’er	o'er	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 Patrick	nmod
17	signed	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 raised	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Sign	det
19	conquering	conquer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 Sign	amod
20	Sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 signed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Baptize	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 Baptize	punct
23	Baptize	baptize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 signed	conj
24	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 Baptize	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Tailkenn	punct
26	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Tailkenn	amod
27	Tailkenn	Tailkenn	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Baptize	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 die	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 die	mark
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 die	nsubj
31	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 raised	conj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 die	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund	speech not said here		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	raise	past	speech	the same cry			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme
3	sign	past	Patrick o'er speech	the conquering Sign			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent sign=Destination
4	conquer	gerund					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	baptize	infinitive	Patrick o'er speech not said here	us		holy Tailkenn obl	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Result
6	die	present	we				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 10, sentence 73