Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 21
Having many wives was a custom of some old kings; today in most countries a person may be married to only one person.
Who acts: Having, old kings · What happens: have, be, marry · To what, where: many wives, custom, person, most countries
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» 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 (Having, old kings), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 custom | csubj |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wives | amod |
| 3 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Having | obj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 custom | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 custom | det |
| 6 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 kings | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 kings | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kings | amod |
| 10 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 custom | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 married | punct |
| 12 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 married | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 countries | case |
| 14 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 countries | amod |
| 15 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 married | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 person | det |
| 17 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 married | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 married | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 married | aux:pass |
| 20 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 kings | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 person | case |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 one | advmod |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 person | nummod |
| 24 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 married | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 custom | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | many wives | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Having | a custom | of some old kings | tree rules | |||
| 3 | marry | may · passive | some old kings not said here | a person | most countries | today | to one person | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to person=Co-Patient |
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:096-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast.lesson:21.
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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