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title: In death he cried, ‘Lay me with forehead turned to Uladh’s realm;--… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In death he cried, ‘Lay me with forehead turned to Uladh’s realm;-- They shall not say that fugitive I died.’ Who acts: Prone, sword, I. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 93

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In death he cried, ‘Lay me with forehead turned to Uladh’s realm;-- They shall not say that fugitive I died.’

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**Who acts:** Prone, sword, I · **What happens:** cry, lay, turn, not say, die · **To what, where:** death, me, realm, fugitive · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prone, sword, I), 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:pg78491:12:95
# text = In death he cried, ‘Lay me with forehead turned to Uladh’s realm;-- They shall not say that fugitive I died.’
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	fugitive	fugitive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Prone |  |  | death |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in death=Location |
| 2 | **lay** | infinitive | Prone *not said here* | me |  |  |  | with forehead | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Result |
| 3 | **turn** | participle | Prone *not said here* |  |  | Uladh's realm |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to realm=Trajectory |
| 4 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | shall | sword | that fugitive |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fugitive=Topic |
| 5 | **die** | past | I | that fugitive *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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