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title: His character is one so consistent and so original that it suffices… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: His character is one so consistent and so original that it suffices by itself to stamp the age which conceived it as high among the most poetic of the world. Who acts: character, age. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 67

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His character is one so consistent and so original that it suffices by itself to stamp the age which conceived it as high among the most poetic of the world.

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**Who acts:** character, age · **What happens:** suffice, stamp, conceive · **To what, where:** age, character

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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 (character, age), 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:pg78491:1:71
# text = His character is one so consistent and so original that it suffices by itself to stamp the age which conceived it as high among the most poetic of the world.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	suffices	suffice	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	stamp	stamp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	conceived	conceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	_
24	among	among	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	27	advmod	_	_
27	poetic	poetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffice** | present | character |  |  |  |  | by character | tree rules |
| 2 | **stamp** | to-infinitive | character *not said here* | the age |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent age=Destination |
| 3 | **conceive** | past | the age | character |  |  |  | as high | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as high=Attribute |

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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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