Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, sentence 17
Black, white and green peppercorns are the same berry of a climbing vine from India, and pepper was once so valuable it was used to pay rent; a peppercorn rent now means a tiny token payment.
Who acts: Black peppercorns, pepper, peppercorn rent · What happens: be, use, pay, mean · To what, where: same berry, pepper, rent, tiny token payment
This is a sentence of the lesson «Nuts, beans, seeds and spices» of the biology 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 (Black peppercorns, pepper, peppercorn rent), 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 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 peppercorns | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 white | punct |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Black | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 green | cc |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Black | conj |
| 6 | peppercorns | peppercorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 berry | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 berry | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 berry | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 berry | amod |
| 10 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 vine | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 vine | det |
| 13 | climbing | climbing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vine | compound |
| 14 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 berry | nmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 India | case |
| 16 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 vine | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 valuable | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 valuable | cc |
| 19 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 valuable | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 valuable | cop |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | _ | 23 valuable | advmod |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 valuable | advmod |
| 23 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 berry | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 used | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 used | aux:pass |
| 26 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 valuable | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 pay | mark |
| 28 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 used | xcomp |
| 29 | rent | rent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pay | obj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 means | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 rent | det |
| 32 | peppercorn | peppercorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rent | compound |
| 33 | rent | rent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 means | nsubj |
| 34 | now | now | ADV | _ | 35 means | advmod |
| 35 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 berry | parataxis |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 payment | det |
| 37 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 payment | amod |
| 38 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 payment | compound |
| 39 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 means | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 berry | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Black peppercorns | the same berry | of a climbing vine from India | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | pepper | once, valuable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | past · passive | pepper | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | pay | to-infinitive | rent | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rent=Asset | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | a peppercorn rent | a tiny token payment | now | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent payment=Topic |
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:biology:348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices.lesson:17.
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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