Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 31
The last blow has been struck; our marriage is at an end, and so farewell."
Who acts: marriage, our · What happens: strike, be, marry · To what, where: last blow, end
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage, our), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 blow | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blow | amod |
| 3 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 struck | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 struck | aux:pass |
| 6 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 end | punct |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 9 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 end | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 end | cop |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 end | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 farewell | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 farewell | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 farewell | advmod |
| 17 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 6 struck | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 struck | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | present · perfect · passive | the last blow | farewell property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | our marriage | at a end | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry | our | nom marriage «state 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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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