The night sky and outdoor myths, sentence 22
A boy in Arizona looked straight at the Sun during an eclipse; it burned a spot in his eye and his eyesight was damaged for life.
Who acts: boy, eclipse · What happens: look, burn, damage · To what, where: spot, eye, eyesight
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 (boy, eclipse), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Arizona | case |
| 4 | Arizona | Arizona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 5 looked | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Sun | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sun | det |
| 9 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 10 | during | during | ADP | _ | 12 eclipse | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 eclipse | det |
| 12 | eclipse | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 burned | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 burned | nsubj |
| 15 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 spot | det |
| 17 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 burned | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 eye | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eye | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 burned | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 damaged | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyesight | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyesight | eyesight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 damaged | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 damaged | aux:pass |
| 25 | damaged | damage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 burned | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 life | case |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 damaged | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | a boy in Arizona | during a eclipse | at the Sun; straight property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sun=Theme | |||
| 2 | burn | past | eclipse | a spot | boy's eye | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | |||
| 3 | damage | past · passive | boy's eyesight | for life | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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: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 ×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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