More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 17

But the vow was broken, and for nine generations of men none of the Lambtons died in his bed.

Who acts: none · What happens: break, die · To what, where: vow

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none), 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	_	5 broken	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 vow	det
3	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broken	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 broken	aux:pass
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 died	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 died	cc
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 generations	case
9	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 generations	nummod
10	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 died	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 men	case
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 generations	nmod
13	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	17 died	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Lambtons	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Lambtons	det
16	Lambtons	Lambton	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 none	nmod
17	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 broken	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 bed	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 bed	nmod:poss
20	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 died	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 broken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past · passive		the vow					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	die	past	none				for nine generations of men	in vow's bed	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in bed=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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