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title: Body and soul were not then thus carefully discriminated; the heroic… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 86

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Body and soul were not then thus carefully discriminated; the heroic deed was attributed, not to the hand alone, but to the warrior himself, his heart and his brain; and not to the man only, but to some divine aid, his because deserved by him.

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**What happens:** not discriminate, attribute, deserve · **To what, where:** Body, heroic deed

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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: 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:pg78491:1:90
# text = Body and soul were not then thus carefully discriminated; the heroic deed was attributed, not to the hand alone, but to the warrior himself, his heart and his brain; and not to the man only, but to some divine aid, his because deserved by him.
1	Body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	discriminated	discriminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	attributed	attribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
40	only	only	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	det	_	_
45	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
49	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
50	deserved	deserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
51	by	by	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **discriminate** | past · passive |  | Body and soul |  |  | then | carefully, thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **attribute** | past · passive |  | the heroic deed |  |  |  | to the hand; man's warrior  Cuchullain and the man but some divine aid *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 3 | **deserve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by man | 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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