Quiet places and solemn moments, sentence 16

A cenotaph is a stone war memorial in a town, where people gather for a minute's silence to remember those who died in wars.

Who acts: cenotaph, people, minute · What happens: be, gather, remember, die, silence · To what, where: stone war memorial, town, those

This is a sentence of the lesson «Quiet places and solemn moments» of the everyday 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 (cenotaph, people, minute), 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	2 cenotaph	det
2	cenotaph	cenotaph	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 memorial	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 memorial	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 memorial	det
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 memorial	compound
6	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 memorial	compound
7	memorial	memorial	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 town	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 town	det
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 memorial	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gather	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 gather	advmod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gather	nsubj
14	gather	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 town	acl:relcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	19 silence	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 minute	det
17	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 silence	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 minute	case
19	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gather	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 remember	mark
21	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 gather	advcl
22	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 remember	obj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 died	nsubj
24	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 those	acl:relcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 wars	case
26	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 died	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 memorial	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	is a	present	a cenotaph	a stone war memorial	a town		tree rules
2	gather	present	people			for a minute's silence	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for silence=Beneficiary
3	remember	to-infinitive	people not said here	those			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent that=Theme
4	die	past				in wars	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in war=Attribute
5	silence		a minute				nom silence «state transitive»: poss=agent

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:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.lesson:16.

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 ×2. 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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