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title: Those who charge the Irish race with a fatalism supposed to be a mar… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by A
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 23

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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.

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

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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 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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:2:23
# text = 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.
1	Those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	charge	charge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fatalism	fatalism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	point	point	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	36	nmod	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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