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title: In Cuchullain, courage is an inspiration descending from above upon… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Cuchullain, courage is an inspiration descending from above upon a being essentially emotional, and though always brave, yet sensitive and capable of awe. Who acts: courage, inspiration. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 83

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In Cuchullain, courage is an inspiration descending from above upon a being essentially emotional, and though always brave, yet sensitive and capable of awe.

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**Who acts:** courage, inspiration · **What happens:** be, descend · **To what, where:** inspiration, 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 (courage, inspiration), 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:pg78491:1:87
# text = In Cuchullain, courage is an inspiration descending from above upon a being essentially emotional, and though always brave, yet sensitive and capable of awe.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	inspiration	inspiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	descending	descend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	above	above	ADV	RB	_	8	obl	_	_
11	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
14	essentially	essentially	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	emotional	emotional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
20	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	capable	capable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	awe	awe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	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 | courage | a inspiration |  | Cuchullain |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **descend** | gerund | a inspiration *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from above=Location |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | a inspiration *not said here* |  |  |  |  | emotional, essentially *property* | tree rules |

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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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