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title: And thus she made the lay, and thus she sang: ‘Baptize us, priest, w… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thus she made the lay, and thus she sang: ‘Baptize us, priest, while living yet we be!’ Who acts: Finola, we. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 67

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And thus she made the lay, and thus she sang: ‘Baptize us, priest, while living yet we be!’

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**Who acts:** Finola, we · **What happens:** make, sing, baptize, live, be · **To what, where:** lay, us

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:10:67
# text = And thus she made the lay, and thus she sang: ‘Baptize us, priest, while living yet we be!’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lay	lay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Baptize	baptize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
21	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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