Songs and rhymes, sentence 5

Frère Jacques is about a monk who has overslept: dormez-vous ? means "are you sleeping?" and sonnez les matines means "ring the bells for morning prayers"; in English the bells are already ringing.

Who acts: Frère, monk, you, bells · What happens: be, oversleep, mean, sleep, sonner, ring · To what, where: bells, English · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Songs and rhymes» of the french 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 (Frère, monk, you, bells), 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	Frère	Frère	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 monk	nsubj
2	Jacques	Jacques	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Frère	flat
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 monk	cop
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 monk	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 monk	det
6	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 means	parataxis
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 overslept	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 overslept	aux
9	overslept	oversleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 monk	acl:relcl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 vous	punct
11	dormez	dormez	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 vous	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 dormez	punct
13	vous	vous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 overslept	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 monk	punct
15	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 sleeping	punct
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 sleeping	aux
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 sleeping	nsubj
19	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 means	ccomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 sleeping	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 sleeping	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sleeping	cc
23	sonnez	sonner	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 les	amod
24	les	le	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 matines	compound
25	matines	matine	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sleeping	conj
26	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 means	parataxis
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 ring	punct
28	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 means	ccomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bells	det
30	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 ring	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 prayers	case
32	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 prayers	compound
33	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 bells	nmod
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 ring	punct
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 English	punct
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 English	case
37	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 ringing	obl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 bells	det
39	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 ringing	nsubj
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 ringing	aux
41	already	already	ADV	_	42 ringing	advmod
42	ringing	ring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 means	parataxis
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 monk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Frère			about a monk	tree rules
2	oversleep	present · perfect	a monk				tree rules
3	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sleep in a quote	present · progressive	you				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sonner	infinitive					tree rules
6	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	ring in a quote	gerund		the bells		for morning prayers	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme
8	ring	present · progressive	the bells		English		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in english=Location

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:french:031-songs-and-rhymes.lesson:5.

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): R6-punct-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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