Wind, fog, wildfire, tsunami and the seasons, sentence 23

When the ground shook and the sea went out strangely in Japan, some people went to look at the beach; the tsunami came in minutes and many were swept away.

Who acts: ground, sea, people, tsunami · What happens: shake, go out, go, look, come in, sweep away · To what, where: Japan, many

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 (ground, sea, people, tsunami), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ground	det
3	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shook	nsubj
4	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 went	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sea	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shook	conj
9	out	out	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	strangely	strangely	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 went	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Japan	case
12	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	18 look	mark
18	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 went	xcomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 beach	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 beach	det
21	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 look	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tsunami	det
24	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 went	parataxis
26	in	in	ADV	_	25 came	advmod
27	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 came	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 swept	cc
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 swept	nsubj:pass
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 swept	aux:pass
31	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 came	conj
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 swept	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	the ground					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	go out	past	the sea		Japan		out, strangely property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	some people					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look	to-infinitive	some people not said here				at the beach	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at beach=Theme
5	come in	past	the tsunami			minute		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sweep away	past · passive		many			away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory

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:23.

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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×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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