Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 35
In 1907 he became the first English-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Who acts: book · What happens: become, win · To what, where: first English language writer, 1907, Nobel Prize, Literature
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» 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 (book), 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 1907 | case |
| 2 | 1907 | 1907 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 became | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 writer | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 writer | amod |
| 7 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 writer | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 English | punct |
| 9 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 writer | compound |
| 10 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 win | mark |
| 12 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 writer | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Prize | det |
| 14 | Nobel | Nobel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Prize | compound |
| 15 | Prize | Prize | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 win | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Literature | case |
| 17 | Literature | literature | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Prize | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 1907 | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | book | the first English language writer | in 1907 result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1907=Result | |||
| 2 | win | to-infinitive | book not said here | the Nobel Prize | Literature | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality |
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:097-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends.lesson:35.
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): R5-strong ×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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