The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 23

Those who charge the Irish race with a fatalism supposed to be a mark of its Eastern origin, may point to this tale as a proof that the characteristic is at least an ancient one.

Who acts: Those, characteristic · What happens: charge, suppose, be, point · To what, where: Irish race, fatalism, mark, tale, ancient one, least

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Those, characteristic), 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	Those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 point	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 charge	nsubj
3	charge	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Those	acl:relcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 race	det
5	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 race	amod
6	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 charge	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 fatalism	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fatalism	det
9	fatalism	fatalism	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 race	nmod
10	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fatalism	acl
11	to	to	PART	_	14 mark	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 mark	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mark	det
14	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 supposed	xcomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 origin	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 origin	nmod:poss
17	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 origin	amod
18	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mark	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Those	punct
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 point	aux
21	point	point	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 tale	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 tale	det
24	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 point	obl
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 proof	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 proof	det
27	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 point	obl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 one	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 characteristic	det
30	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 one	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 one	cop
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 least	case
33	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 one	nmod
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 one	det
35	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 one	amod
36	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 proof	acl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 point	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	charge	present		the Irish race			with a fatalism; who nsubj	vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent race=Recipient with fatalism=Theme
2	suppose	participle		a fatalism not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	to-infinitive		a mark			of mark's Eastern origin	tree rules
4	point	may	Those		this tale		as a proof	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to tale=Recipient
5	is a	present	the characteristic	a ancient one		least		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.

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 23