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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 72

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He is reverent to both his parents--fiercely as they were at variance with each other--to age, to woman; and about him, even in his sterner moods, there plays often the joyous spirit of the child.

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**Who acts:** Cuchullain, dealings · **What happens:** be, age, play · **To what, where:** joyous spirit

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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, 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:pg78491:1:76
# text = He is reverent to both his parents--fiercely as they were at variance with each other--to age, to woman; and about him, even in his sterner moods, there plays often the joyous spirit of the child.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	reverent	reverent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc:preconj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	variance	variance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nmod	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	age	age	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	sterner	stern	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
33	moods	mood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	36	expl	_	_
36	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
37	often	often	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	joyous	joyous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  | to Cuchullain's parents; ferocity *parataxis*; reverent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | dealings *= dealing* |  |  |  |  | as variance; with each; fiercely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **age** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | woman *vocative* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **play** | present | Cuchullain *not said here* | the joyous spirit of the child |  | there |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme |

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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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