Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 19

“Often I would go, drawn by my memoried heart, to look at them as they moved among their fields; and I spoke to my mind in bitterness: ‘When the people of Partholon were gathered in counsel my voice was heard; it was sweet to all who heard it, and the words I spoke were wise.

Who acts: I, men, voice, words, my · What happens: go, draw, look, move, speak, gather · To what, where: fields, bitterness, people, counsel, voice, words · 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 (I, men, voice, words), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
2	Often	often	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 drawn	punct
7	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 go	advcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 heart	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 heart	nmod:poss
10	memoried	memoried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 heart	amod
11	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drawn	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 look	mark
14	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 go	parataxis
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 look	obl
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 moved	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 moved	nsubj
19	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 look	advcl
20	among	among	ADP	_	22 fields	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 fields	nmod:poss
22	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 moved	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 spoke	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 spoke	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 spoke	nsubj
26	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 mind	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mind	nmod:poss
29	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spoke	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 bitterness	case
31	bitterness	bitterness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spoke	obl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	46 heard	punct
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	46 heard	punct
34	When	when	SCONJ	_	40 gathered	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 people	det
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 gathered	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Partholon	case
38	Partholon	Partholon	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 people	nmod
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 gathered	aux:pass
40	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 heard	advcl
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 counsel	case
42	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 gathered	obl
43	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 voice	nmod:poss
44	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 heard	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 heard	aux:pass
46	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 go	parataxis
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 sweet	punct
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 sweet	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 sweet	cop
50	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 heard	parataxis
51	to	to	ADP	_	52 all	case
52	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	50 sweet	obl
53	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 heard	nsubj
54	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 all	acl:relcl
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 heard	obj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 wise	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 wise	cc
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 words	det
59	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 wise	nsubj
60	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	61 spoke	nsubj
61	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 words	acl:relcl
62	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 wise	cop
63	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 sweet	conj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	would	I			often property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	draw in a quote	participle	I not said here			by my memoried heart	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look in a quote	to-infinitive				at men = man	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
4	move in a quote	past	men = man		men's fields		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme among field=Trajectory
5	speak speech: other in a quote	past	I		bitterness	to my mind	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to mind=Co-Agent
6	gather in a quote	past · passive		the people of Partholon	counsel		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	hear in a quote	past · passive		my voice			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
8	is in a quote	past	voice			to all; sweet property	tree rules
9	hear in a quote	past		voice			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
10	speak speech: other in a quote	past	I	the words not said here			tree rules
11	is in a quote	past	the words			wise property	tree rules
12	mind in a quote		my				nom mind «cognition 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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