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title: Among the ancient Irish heroes he was the popular favourite, princel… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 1,
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 64

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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.

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**Who acts:** Mac · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** popular favourite

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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 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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:1:68
# text = 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.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	favourite	favourite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	princely	princely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	magnanimous	magnanimous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	truthful	truthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	majestic	majestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
29	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	xcomp	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	mirth	mirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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