--- title: Fergus was loftier-minded: ever more He loathed the sordid plea, the… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Fergus was loftier-minded: ever more He loathed the sordid plea, the varnished wrong, And inly scorned the Ollamb’s learnèd lore: More dear to him the chase, the feast, the song: Wearied one day, he cried with laughing face, ‘Conor! speak thou the judgment in my place!’ Who acts: Fergus, chase, Cono --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/) / 5 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 5 Fergus was loftier-minded: ever more He loathed the sordid plea, the varnished wrong, And inly scorned the Ollamb’s learnèd lore: More dear to him the chase, the feast, the song: Wearied one day, he cried with laughing face, ‘Conor! speak thou the judgment in my place!’ **Who acts:** Fergus, chase, Conor · **What happens:** be, mind, loathe, varnish, scorn, weary · **To what, where:** sordid plea, learnèd lore, thou, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fergus, chase, Conor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:3:5 # text = Fergus was loftier-minded: ever more He loathed the sordid plea, the varnished wrong, And inly scorned the Ollamb’s learnèd lore: More dear to him the chase, the feast, the song: Wearied one day, he cried with laughing face, ‘Conor! speak thou the judgment in my place!’ 1 Fergus Fergus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 loftier lofty ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 minded mind VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 8 advmod _ _ 8 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 9 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 loathed loathe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 sordid sordid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 plea plea NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 varnished varnish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 wrong wrong NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 And and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 inly inly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 scorned scorn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Ollamb Ollamb PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’s 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 learnèd learnèd NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 lore lore NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 28 More more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 29 advmod _ _ 29 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 appos _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 chase chase NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 : : PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 41 Wearied weary VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 42 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 43 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 47 with with ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 49 amod _ _ 49 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 51 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 Conor Conor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ! ! PUNCT . _ 52 punct _ _ 54 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 conj _ _ 55 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 54 obj _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 judgment judgment NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obj _ _ 58 in in ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 60 nmod:poss _ _ 60 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 61 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 62 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Fergus | | | | | lofty *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mind** | participle | Fergus *not said here* | | | | | | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **loathe** | past | Fergus | the sordid plea | | | ever | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plea=Stimulus | | 4 | **varnish** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **scorn** | past | Fergus *not said here* | the Ollamb's learnèd lore and the feast and the song | | | | inly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lore=Theme | | 6 | **weary** | participle | Fergus *not said here* | | | | day | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | chase | | | | | with laughing face | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with face=Theme | | 8 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | Conor | thou | | my place | | the judgment *obj* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/6/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/)