Taxonomy of meanings for 矣夫:  

  • MODAL PARTICLES
    • PPpostadN{PRED}marks an emphatic nominal predicate, that whole predication being modified as a whole by the communicative rhetorical question particle  夫 "n'est-ce pas"CH
    • PPpostadSverbal sentencemarks an emphatic and communicative statementCH
  • THEN
    • PPpostadS1.post-S2marking the apodosis of a conditional sentenceCH