The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 82
The kingly valour of Fergus, thoughtful and serene, has nothing in common with the animal fearlessness of Lok Mac Favesh, or the blind patriotic fury of Ketherne, and but little with that of Ferdīa.
Who acts: kingly valour · What happens: have, infuriate · To what, where: nothing, Ketherne
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 (kingly valour), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 valour | det |
| 2 | kingly | kingly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 valour | amod |
| 3 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Fergus | case |
| 5 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 valour | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thoughtful | punct |
| 7 | thoughtful | thoughtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 valour | parataxis |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 serene | cc |
| 9 | serene | serene | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thoughtful | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 valour | punct |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 has | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 common | case |
| 14 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nothing | amod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 fearlessness | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fearlessness | det |
| 17 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fearlessness | compound |
| 18 | fearlessness | fearlessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 common | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Mac | case |
| 20 | Lok | Lok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Mac | compound |
| 21 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 fearlessness | nmod |
| 22 | Favesh | Favesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Mac | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fury | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 fury | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fury | det |
| 26 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fury | amod |
| 27 | patriotic | patriotic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fury | amod |
| 28 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fearlessness | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Ketherne | case |
| 30 | Ketherne | Ketherne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 fury | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 that | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 that | cc |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 that | cc |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 that | advmod |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 that | case |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 has | parataxis |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Ferdīa | case |
| 38 | Ferdīa | Ferdīa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 that | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the kingly valour of Fergus | nothing | that of Ferdīa parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||
| 2 | infuriate | Ketherne | nom fury «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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