Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world, sentence 5
Halloween on 31 October grew from Samhain, an old Celtic festival that marked the end of the harvest and the start of winter.
Who acts: Halloween, old Celtic festival · What happens: grow, mark, start · To what, where: end, winter
This is a sentence of the lesson «Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world» of the world 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 (Halloween, old Celtic festival), 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 | Halloween | Halloween | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 31 | case |
| 3 | 31 | 31 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Halloween | nmod |
| 4 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 31 | flat |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Samhain | case |
| 7 | Samhain | Samhain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 festival | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 festival | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 festival | amod |
| 11 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 festival | amod |
| 12 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Samhain | appos |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 marked | nsubj |
| 14 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 festival | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marked | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 harvest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 harvest | det |
| 19 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 end | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 start | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 start | det |
| 22 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 end | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 winter | case |
| 24 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 start | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Halloween on 31 | from Samhain | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from samhain=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mark | past | a old Celtic festival | the end of the harvest and the start of winter | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent end=Destination | ||||
| 3 | start | winter | nom start «event transitive»: of=patient |
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:world:097-festivals-holidays-traditions.lesson:5.
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 ×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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