Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 27
Real life: Stone Age people in Britain did not write; writing came to Britain with the Romans, about 2,000 years ago.
Who acts: Real life, writing · What happens: not write, come · To what, where: Britain
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down» of the books 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 (Real life, writing), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 write | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 people | punct |
| 4 | Stone | Stone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Age | compound |
| 5 | Age | age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 people | compound |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 write | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Britain | case |
| 8 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 people | nmod |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 write | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 write | advmod |
| 11 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 13 | writing | write | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 write | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Britain | case |
| 16 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 Romans | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Romans | det |
| 19 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 came | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ago | punct |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 2,000 | advmod |
| 22 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 years | nummod |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not write | past · do-support | Real life | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | writing | Britain | with the Romans; ago property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to britain=Initial_Location |
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:books:086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.lesson:27.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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