Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the seasons, sentence 22

A family in California waited too long to leave when a wildfire came near; the smoke and flames blocked the road, and firefighters had to lead them out.

Who acts: family, wildfire, smoke, firefighters · What happens: wait, leave, come, block, have, lead out · To what, where: road, firefighters

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the seasons» 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 (family, wildfire, smoke, firefighters), 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 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waited	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 California	case
4	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 family	nmod
5	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 waited	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 leave	mark
9	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 waited	advcl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 came	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wildfire	det
12	wildfire	wildfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 leave	advcl
14	near	near	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 blocked	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 smoke	det
17	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 blocked	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 flames	cc
19	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 smoke	conj
20	blocked	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 waited	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 road	det
22	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 blocked	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 had	cc
25	firefighters	firefighter	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 blocked	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 lead	mark
28	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 had	xcomp
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lead	obj
30	out	out	ADP	_	28 lead	compound:prt
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 waited	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	past	a family in California		long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	to-infinitive	a family in California not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	a wildfire		near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	block	past	the smoke and flames	the road		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer road=Theme
5	have	past	firefighters			tree rules
6	lead out	to-infinitive	firefighters not said here	firefighters = firefighter		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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.

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:236-wind-fog-fire-and-seasons.lesson:22.

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, 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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