Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 154

Sorrowful was each one that was in the town on this night.

Who acts: Sorrowful, that · What happens: be · To what, where: one, town

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sorrowful, that), 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	Sorrowful	Sorrowful	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 one	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 one	cop
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 town	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 town	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 town	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 town	det
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 one	parataxis
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 night	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 town	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Sorrowful	each one					tree rules
2	is	past	that			the town	night		tree rules

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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