Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 17

Then, observing the stricken countenances about him, and the faces of men and women hewn thin by hunger, his resolution melted away, and he said:

Who acts: resolution, Segda · What happens: observe, melt away, say, resolve · To what, where: stricken countenances, hewn thin hunger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (resolution, Segda), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 observing	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 observing	punct
3	observing	observe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 countenances	det
5	stricken	stricken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 countenances	amod
6	countenances	countenance	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 observing	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 countenances	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 faces	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 faces	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 faces	det
12	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 observing	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 men	case
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 faces	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 women	cc
16	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 men	conj
17	hewn	hewn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hunger	amod
18	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hunger	amod
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 hunger	case
20	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 men	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 melted	punct
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 resolution	nmod:poss
23	resolution	resolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 melted	nsubj
24	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hunger	acl:relcl
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 melted	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 melted	conj
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 observing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	observe	gerund		the stricken countenances	then	about Segda; the faces of men and women and hewn thin hunger obl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent countenance=Topic
2	melt away	past	Segda's resolution	hewn thin hunger not said here		away property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient hunger=Result
3	say speech: assert	past	Segda				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	resolve		Segda				nom resolution «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: «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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