Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 141
My husband must hit him in that spot, for it is the only place in which he can be killed."
Who acts: husband, fin · What happens: hit, be, kill · To what, where: tide, spot, husband, only place
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, fin), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 husband | nmod:poss |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hit | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hit | aux |
| 4 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hit | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 spot | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 spot | det |
| 8 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hit | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 place | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 place | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 place | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 14 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 place | amod |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hit | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 killed | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 killed | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 killed | aux:pass |
| 21 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 place | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hit | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | must | My husband | tide | that spot | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in spot=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | present | fin | for the only place | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | can · passive | husband | the only place | vn remove-10.1 «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.
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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