The heart and blood, sentence 12
In 1628 William Harvey showed that the same blood goes round and round the body, when many people still believed blood was made fresh in the liver and used up; but the heart pumps more blood in an hour than food could ever make.
Who acts: William, same blood, many people, heart, food · What happens: show, go round, round, believe, make, use up · To what, where: 1628, body, blood, liver, more blood · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The heart and blood» 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 (William, same blood, many people, heart), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1628 | case |
| 2 | 1628 | 1628 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 showed | obl |
| 3 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 showed | nsubj |
| 4 | Harvey | Harvey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 William | flat |
| 5 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 goes | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 blood | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 blood | amod |
| 9 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | nsubj |
| 10 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 showed | ccomp |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 goes | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 round | cc |
| 13 | round | round | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 goes | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 body | det |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 round | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 believed | mark |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 people | amod |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 believed | nsubj |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 believed | advmod |
| 21 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 showed | advcl |
| 22 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 made | aux:pass |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 believed | ccomp |
| 25 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 made | xcomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 liver | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 liver | det |
| 28 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 used | cc |
| 30 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 made | conj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 used | compound:prt |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 pumps | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 pumps | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 heart | det |
| 35 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pumps | nsubj |
| 36 | pumps | pump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 showed | conj |
| 37 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 blood | amod |
| 38 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pumps | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 hour | case |
| 40 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 hour | det |
| 41 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pumps | obl |
| 42 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 46 make | mark |
| 43 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 make | nsubj |
| 44 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 make | aux |
| 45 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 46 make | advmod |
| 46 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 blood | advcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 showed | 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 | show | past | William | 1628 | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go round | present | the same blood | round property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | round | past | the same blood not said here | the body | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent body=Patient | ||||
| 4 | believe | past | many people | still | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | make | past · passive | blood | the liver | fresh property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 6 | use up | participle | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | pump | present | the heart | more blood | hour | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blood=Theme | |||
| 8 | make | could | food | ever | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material |
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:065-the-heart-and-blood.lesson:12.
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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