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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cycle | det |
| 2 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cycle | amod |
| 3 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 derives | nsubj |
| 4 | derives | derive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 name | nmod:poss |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 derives | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 circumstance | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 circumstance | det |
| 9 | circumstance | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 derives | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 circumstance | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 traced | punct |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 traced | mark |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 traced | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 little | nmod |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 traced | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 traced | aux:pass |
| 18 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 derives | parataxis |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 traced | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Ossian | case |
| 21 | Ossian | Ossian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 traced | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 records | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 records | nsubj |
| 24 | records | record | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 derives | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 warriors | det |
| 26 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 records | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Eireann | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Eireann | det |
| 29 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Eireann | compound |
| 30 | Eireann | Eireann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 warriors | nmod |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 were | nsubj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 warriors | acl:relcl |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 contemporaries | nmod:poss |
| 34 | contemporaries | contemporary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 were | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 flourished | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 flourished | cc |
| 37 | flourished | flourish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 records | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 century | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 century | det |
| 40 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 41 century | amod |
| 41 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 flourished | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 derives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derive | present | the latter cycle | cycle's name | the circumstance that | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent name=Result from circumstance=Material | |||
| 2 | trace back | can · passive | little of cycle | Ossian | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | record | present | cycle | the warriors of the Fianna Eireann | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme | ||||
| 4 | flourish | participle | cycle not said here | century | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | name | cycle | nom 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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