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title: The kingly valour of Fergus, thoughtful and serene, has nothing in c… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The kingly valour of Fergus, thoughtful and serene, has nothing in common with the animal fearlessness of Lok Mac Favesh, or the blind patriotic fury of Ketherne, and but little with that of Ferdīa. Who acts: kingly valour. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's hero
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 82

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The kingly valour of Fergus, thoughtful and serene, has nothing in common with the animal fearlessness of Lok Mac Favesh, or the blind patriotic fury of Ketherne, and but little with that of Ferdīa.

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**Who acts:** kingly valour · **What happens:** have, infuriate · **To what, where:** nothing, Ketherne

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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 (kingly valour), 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:pg78491:1:86
# text = The kingly valour of Fergus, thoughtful and serene, has nothing in common with the animal fearlessness of Lok Mac Favesh, or the blind patriotic fury of Ketherne, and but little with that of Ferdīa.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	kingly	kingly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	serene	serene	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	fearlessness	fearlessness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Lok	Lok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	Favesh	Favesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	patriotic	patriotic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Ketherne	Ketherne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	parataxis	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the kingly valour of Fergus | nothing |  |  |  | that of Ferdīa *parataxis* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 2 | **infuriate** |  |  | Ketherne |  |  |  |  | nom fury «feeling transitive»: 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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