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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 60

The latter cycle derives its name from the circumstance that, though little of it can be traced back to Ossian, it records the warriors of the Fianna Eireann who were his contemporaries, and flourished in the second century.

Who acts: latter cycle, cycle · What happens: derive, trace back, record, flourish, name · To what, where: name, circumstance, little, Ossian, warriors

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 (latter cycle, cycle), 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

detamodnsubjnmod:possobjcasedetoblnsubjpunctmarknsubj:passcasenmodauxaux:passparataxisadvmodcaseoblpunctnsubjparataxisdetobjcasedetcompoundnmodnsubjacl:relclnmod:possnsubjpunctccconjcasedetamodoblpunctrootTheDETlatterADJcycleNOUNderivesVERBitsPRONnameNOUNfromADPtheDETcircumstanceNOUNthatPRON,PUNCTthoughSCONJlittleADJofADPitPRONcanAUXbeAUXtracedVERBbackADVtoADPOssianPROPN,PUNCTitPRONrecordsVERBtheDETwarriorsNOUNofADPtheDETFiannaPROPNEireannPROPNwhoPRONwereAUXhisPRONcontemporariesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJflourishedVERBinADPtheDETsecondADJcenturyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 cycledet
2latterlatterADJDegree=Pos3 cycleamod
3cyclecycleNOUNNumber=Sing4 derivesnsubj
4derivesderiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
5itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 namenmod:poss
6namenameNOUNNumber=Sing4 derivesobj
7fromfromADP_9 circumstancecase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 circumstancedet
9circumstancecircumstanceNOUNNumber=Sing4 derivesobl
10thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem9 circumstancensubj
11,,PUNCT_18 tracedpunct
12thoughthoughSCONJ_18 tracedmark
13littlelittleADJDegree=Pos18 tracednsubj:pass
14ofofADP_15 itcase
15ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 littlenmod
16cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin18 tracedaux
17bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf18 tracedaux:pass
18tracedtraceVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 derivesparataxis
19backbackADV_18 tracedadvmod
20totoADP_21 Ossiancase
21OssianOssianPROPNNumber=Sing18 tracedobl
22,,PUNCT_24 recordspunct
23ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 recordsnsubj
24recordsrecordVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 derivesparataxis
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 warriorsdet
26warriorswarriorNOUNNumber=Plur24 recordsobj
27ofofADP_30 Eireanncase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 Eireanndet
29FiannaFiannaPROPNNumber=Sing30 Eireanncompound
30EireannEireannPROPNNumber=Sing26 warriorsnmod
31whowhoPRONPronType=Rel32 werensubj
32werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 warriorsacl:relcl
33hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 contemporariesnmod:poss
34contemporariescontemporaryNOUNNumber=Plur32 werensubj
35,,PUNCT_37 flourishedpunct
36andandCCONJ_37 flourishedcc
37flourishedflourishVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass24 recordsconj
38ininADP_41 centurycase
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 centurydet
40secondsecondADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord41 centuryamod
41centurycenturyNOUNNumber=Sing37 flourishedobl
42..PUNCT_4 derivespunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1derivepresentthe latter cyclecycle's namethe circumstance thatvn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent name=Result from circumstance=Material
2trace backcan · passivelittle of cycleOssianvn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3recordpresentcyclethe warriors of the Fianna Eireannvn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme
4flourishparticiplecycle not said herecenturyvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5namecyclenom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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.

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