The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 73
His devotion to Ferdīa is tenderer than that of Achilles to Patroclus; but on him there has fallen a sterner duty.
Who acts: devotion, Cuchullain · What happens: be, fall, devote · To what, where: tenderer, Cuchullain
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 (devotion, Cuchullain), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 devotion | nmod:poss |
| 2 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tenderer | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Ferdīa | case |
| 4 | Ferdīa | Ferdīa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 devotion | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tenderer | cop |
| 6 | tenderer | tenderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 tenderer | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Achilles | case |
| 10 | Achilles | Achilles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tenderer | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Patroclus | case |
| 12 | Patroclus | Patroclus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Achilles | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 fallen | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 fallen | cc |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fallen | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 him | advmod |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fallen | aux |
| 19 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 tenderer | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 duty | det |
| 21 | sterner | stern | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 duty | amod |
| 22 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fallen | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tenderer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Cuchullain's devotion to Ferdīa | tenderer | than that; of Achilles to Patroclus | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fall | present · perfect · passive | Cuchullain | a sterner duty obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | devote | Cuchullain | to Ferdīa | nom devotion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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