Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 96

For three years past, this grievous calamity had been borne.

What happens: bear · To what, where: grievous calamity

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 years	case
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 borne	obl
4	past	past	ADV	_	3 years	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 years	punct
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 calamity	det
7	grievous	grievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 calamity	amod
8	calamity	calamity	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 borne	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 borne	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 borne	aux:pass
11	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 borne	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · perfect · passive		this grievous calamity			year		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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