Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 26

But in their hearts they were bidding him good-bye, for all were assured that the lad was marching to a death so unescapeable that he might already be counted as a dead man.

Who acts: servants, lad · What happens: bid, assure, march, count · To what, where: Fionn, hearts, all

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, lad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 bidding	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 hearts	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hearts	nmod:poss
4	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bidding	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bidding	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bidding	aux
7	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bidding	obj
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bidding	obj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 bye	punct
11	bye	bye	INTJ	_	9 good	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 assured	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 assured	mark
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 assured	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 assured	aux:pass
16	assured	assure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 bidding	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 marching	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lad	det
19	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 marching	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 marching	aux
21	marching	march	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 assured	ccomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 death	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 death	det
24	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 marching	obl
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 unescapeable	advmod
26	unescapeable	unescapeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 marching	xcomp
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 counted	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 counted	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 counted	aux
30	already	already	ADV	_	32 counted	advmod
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 counted	aux:pass
32	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 unescapeable	advcl
33	as	as	ADP	_	36 man	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 man	det
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 man	amod
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 counted	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bidding	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bid	past · progressive	servants = servant	Fionn	servants's hearts		tree rules
2	assure	past · passive		all			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	march	past · progressive	the lad			to a death result; unescapeable property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to death=Result
4	count	might · passive		Fionn		as a dead man	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as man=Attribute

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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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