Starting a band, sentence 9
The Beatles played many cover songs in clubs in Hamburg before they became famous for their own songs.
Who acts: Beatles · What happens: play, become, sing · To what, where: many cover songs, clubs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Starting a band» of the arts 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 (Beatles), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Beatles | det |
| 2 | Beatles | Beatles | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 played | nsubj |
| 3 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 songs | amod |
| 5 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 songs | compound |
| 6 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 played | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 clubs | case |
| 8 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 played | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Hamburg | case |
| 10 | Hamburg | Hamburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 clubs | nmod |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 became | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 became | nsubj |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 played | advcl |
| 14 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 became | xcomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 songs | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 songs | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 songs | amod |
| 18 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 famous | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | the Beatles | many cover songs | clubs in Hamburg | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme | |||
| 2 | become | past | Beatles | famous property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sing | Beatles | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:arts:004-starting-a-band.lesson:9.
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): no change. 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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