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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 69

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Like him, he is the defender of the city, more inspired by patriotic zeal than even by his love of glory: like him, he is generous, modest, forbearing to the weak.

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**Who acts:** Cuchullain · **What happens:** be, inspire, forbear, love · **To what, where:** defender, glory

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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 (Cuchullain), 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:pg78491:1:73
# text = Like him, he is the defender of the city, more inspired by patriotic zeal than even by his love of glory: like him, he is generous, modest, forbearing to the weak.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	defender	defender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	inspired	inspire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	patriotic	patriotic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	zeal	zeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	modest	modest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	forbearing	forbear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Cuchullain | the defender |  |  |  | like Cuchullain; of the city | tree rules |
| 2 | **inspire** | participle |  | the defender *not said here* |  |  |  | by patriotic zeal; than Cuchullain's love of glory like Cuchullain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  | generous *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | Cuchullain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **forbear** | gerund | Cuchullain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the weak | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **love** |  | Cuchullain | glory |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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