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title: His devotion to Ferdīa is tenderer than that of Achilles to Patroclu… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: His devotion to Ferdīa is tenderer than that of Achilles to Patroclus; but on him there has fallen a sterner duty. Who acts: devotion, Cuchullain. 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 dependency tree and the 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 73

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His devotion to Ferdīa is tenderer than that of Achilles to Patroclus; but on him there has fallen a sterner duty.

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**Who acts:** devotion, Cuchullain · **What happens:** be, fall, devote · **To what, where:** tenderer, Cuchullain

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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 (devotion, 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:pg78491:1:77
# text = His devotion to Ferdīa is tenderer than that of Achilles to Patroclus; but on him there has fallen a sterner duty.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	devotion	devotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	tenderer	tenderer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Achilles	Achilles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Patroclus	Patroclus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	sterner	stern	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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's devotion to Ferdīa | tenderer |  |  |  | than that; of Achilles to Patroclus | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | present · perfect · passive |  | Cuchullain |  |  |  | a sterner duty *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **devote** |  | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  | to Ferdīa | nom devotion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent to=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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