Funerals and remembering, sentence 2
Picture a small church in Wellington: at the front stands a long wooden box covered in flowers, the coffin.
Who acts: you, long wooden box · What happens: picture, stand, cover · To what, where: small church, Wellington, front, long wooden box
This is a sentence of the lesson «Funerals and remembering» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, long wooden box), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 church | det |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 church | amod |
| 4 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Wellington | case |
| 6 | Wellington | Wellington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 church | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 stands | punct |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 front | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 front | det |
| 10 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stands | obl |
| 11 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 box | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 box | amod |
| 14 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 box | amod |
| 15 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stands | nsubj |
| 16 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 box | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 flowers | case |
| 18 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 covered | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 coffin | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 coffin | det |
| 21 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 box | appos |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a small church | Wellington | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent church=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | present | a long wooden box | the front | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at front=Location | ||||
| 3 | cover | participle | a long wooden box not said here | in flowers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in flower=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.
Licence: CC 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:adult-life:025-funerals-and-remembering.lesson:2.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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.
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