The night sky and outdoor myths, sentence 2
The northern lights glow in the sky near the North Pole, seen from Canada, Alaska, Scotland and other far-north places; the southern lights glow in the far south, seen from New Zealand and Tasmania.
Who acts: northern lights, southern lights · What happens: glow, see · To what, where: sky, Canada, far south, New Zealand
This is a sentence of the lesson «The night sky and outdoor myths» 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 (northern lights, southern lights), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lights | det |
| 2 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lights | amod |
| 3 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 glow | nsubj |
| 4 | glow | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sky | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sky | det |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glow | obl |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 Pole | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Pole | det |
| 10 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Pole | compound |
| 11 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 glow | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seen | punct |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 glow | advcl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Canada | case |
| 15 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 seen | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Alaska | punct |
| 17 | Alaska | Alaska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Canada | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Scotland | punct |
| 19 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Canada | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 places | cc |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 places | amod |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 places | advmod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 far | punct |
| 24 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 places | compound |
| 25 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Canada | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 glow | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 lights | det |
| 28 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lights | amod |
| 29 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 glow | nsubj |
| 30 | glow | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 glow | parataxis |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 south | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 south | det |
| 33 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 south | amod |
| 34 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 glow | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 seen | punct |
| 36 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 glow | advcl |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 Zealand | case |
| 38 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Zealand | flat |
| 39 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 seen | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 Tasmania | cc |
| 41 | Tasmania | Tasmania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Zealand | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | present | the northern lights | the sky | near the North Pole | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location | |||
| 2 | see | participle | the northern lights not said here | Canada and Alaska and Scotland and other north places | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | glow | present | the southern lights | the far south | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in south=Location | ||||
| 4 | see | participle | the southern lights not said here | New Zealand and Tasmania | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.lesson:2.
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 ×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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