The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure), sentence 12
Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!» (ere = before; irrevocable = that can never be taken back).
Who acts: you, irrevocable moment · What happens: take, heed, pass, not take back · To what, where: Adventure, call, that
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 5: Wayfarers All (the spell, the Mole and the cure)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, irrevocable moment), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Adventure | det |
| 3 | Adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heed | punct |
| 5 | heed | heed | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 call | det |
| 7 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 passes | punct |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 passes | advmod |
| 10 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 14 passes | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 moment | det |
| 12 | irrevocable | irrevocable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 moment | amod |
| 13 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 passes | nsubj |
| 14 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | advcl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 ere | punct |
| 18 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| 19 | = | = | SYM | _ | 22 irrevocable | punct |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 irrevocable | case |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 irrevocable | punct |
| 22 | irrevocable | irrevocable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 23 | = | = | SYM | _ | 22 irrevocable | punct |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 taken | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 taken | aux |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 taken | advmod |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 taken | aux:pass |
| 28 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 irrevocable | conj |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 taken | advmod |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 taken | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the Adventure | ere property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | heed | infinitive | you not said here | the call | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | present | the irrevocable moment | now | ere property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | not take back in a quote | can · passive | that | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:060-willows-ch9-part5-the-call-and-the-cure.lesson:12.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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