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title: It is to the strong only among his country’s foes that he is unpityi… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is to the strong only among his country’s foes that he is unpitying; and even in his dealings with them there is no ferocity. Who acts: defender, Cuchullain, dealings. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 1, with its 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 70

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It is to the strong only among his country’s foes that he is unpitying; and even in his dealings with them there is no ferocity.

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**Who acts:** defender, Cuchullain, dealings · **What happens:** be, unpitie, deal

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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 (defender, Cuchullain, dealings), 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:pg78491:1:74
# text = It is to the strong only among his country’s foes that he is unpitying; and even in his dealings with them there is no ferocity.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
7	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	unpitying	unpitie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	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	dealings	dealing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:outer	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	ferocity	ferocity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | defender |  |  |  |  | among Cuchullain's country's foes; strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **unpitie** | present · progressive | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **does** | present | Cuchullain's dealings with foes |  |  | there |  | no ferocity *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **deal** |  | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  | with foes *= foe* | nom dealing «act intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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