The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 64
Among the ancient Irish heroes he was the popular favourite, princely in all his ways, magnanimous, truthful, just, and not the less majestic because a man of mirth.
Who acts: Mac · What happens: be · To what, where: popular favourite
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mac), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 5 heroes | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heroes | det |
| 3 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heroes | amod |
| 4 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heroes | amod |
| 5 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 favourite | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 favourite | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 favourite | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 favourite | det |
| 9 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 favourite | amod |
| 10 | favourite | favourite | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ways | punct |
| 12 | princely | princely | ADV | _ | 16 ways | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 ways | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 ways | det:predet |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ways | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 favourite | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 magnanimous | punct |
| 18 | magnanimous | magnanimous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ways | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 truthful | punct |
| 20 | truthful | truthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 magnanimous | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 majestic | punct |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 majestic | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 majestic | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 majestic | cc |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 less | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 less | det |
| 27 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 majestic | advmod |
| 28 | majestic | majestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 magnanimous | conj |
| 29 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 31 man | mark |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 man | det |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 majestic | xcomp |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 mirth | case |
| 33 | mirth | mirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 man | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 favourite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mac | the popular favourite and Mac's ways | among the ancient Irish heroes; Mac's ways conj | tree rules |
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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