Fronted adverbials, sentence 14
A fronted adverbial is usually followed by a comma.
Who acts: comma · What happens: front, follow · To what, where: fronted adverbial
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fronted adverbials» of the english 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 (comma), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 adverbial | det |
| 2 | fronted | front | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 adverbial | amod |
| 3 | adverbial | adverbial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 followed | aux:pass |
| 5 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 6 followed | advmod |
| 6 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 comma | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 comma | det |
| 9 | comma | comma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 followed | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | front | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | follow | present · passive | a comma | a fronted adverbial | usually property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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.
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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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