Dyes, inks and colouring, sentence 11

Tyrian purple came from thousands of sea snails for a small amount of dye, so it was so dear that it became the colour of emperors and kings.

Who acts: Tyrian purple, purple · What happens: come, be, become, amount · To what, where: thousands, colour, dye

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dyes, inks and colouring» of the chemistry 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 (Tyrian purple, purple), 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	Tyrian	tyrian	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 purple	compound
2	purple	purple	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 thousands	case
5	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 snails	case
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snails	compound
8	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thousands	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 amount	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 amount	det
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 amount	amod
12	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 dye	case
14	dye	dye	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 amount	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dear	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	20 dear	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dear	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 dear	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 dear	advmod
20	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 became	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 became	nsubj
23	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 dear	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 colour	det
25	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 became	xcomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 emperors	case
27	emperors	emperor	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 colour	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 kings	cc
29	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 emperors	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Tyrian purple		thousands of sea snails	for a small amount of dye	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from thousand=Initial_Location
2	is	past	purple			dear property	tree rules
3	become	past	purple	the colour of emperors and kings			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	amount			dye			nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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:chemistry:027-dyes-inks-colouring.lesson:11.

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): R8-pos-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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