--- title: Halloween on 31 October grew from Samhain, an old Celtic festival th… — Festivals, holidays and traditions in the Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: Halloween on 31 October grew from Samhain, an old Celtic festival that marked the end of the harvest and the start of winter. Who acts: Halloween, old Celtic festival. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halloween, old Celtic festival), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:097-festivals-holidays-traditions.lesson:5 # text = Halloween on 31 October grew from Samhain, an old Celtic festival that marked the end of the harvest and the start of winter. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 097-festivals-holidays-traditions.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1 1 Halloween Halloween PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 31 31 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nmod _ _ 4 October October PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Samhain Samhain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 Celtic celtic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 festival festival NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 marked mark VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 harvest harvest NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | Halloween on 31 | | | | | from Samhain | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from samhain=Patient | | 2 | **mark** | past | a old Celtic festival | the end of the harvest and the start of winter | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent end=Destination | | 3 | **start** | | | winter | | | | | nom start «event transitive»: of=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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:097-festivals-holidays-traditions.lesson:5`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Festivals, holidays and traditions in…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/4/) - next →: [Festivals, holidays and traditions in…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/)