Songs and rhymes, sentence 7

Sur le pont d'Avignon: le pont is the bridge, on y danse means "people dance there" and tous en rond means "all in a circle"; the real bridge has only four arches left and stops in the middle of the river.

Who acts: le pont, bridge, people, tous en rond, real bridge · What happens: be, mean, dance, have, leave, stop · To what, where: bridge, circle, four arches, middle · 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 (le pont, bridge, people, tous en rond), 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	Sur	sur	ADP	_	3 pont	case
2	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pont	compound
3	pont	pont	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bridge	nsubj
4	d'Avignon	d'Avignon	X	Foreign=Yes	3 pont	dep
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 pont	punct
6	le	le	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pont	compound
7	pont	pont	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pont	conj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bridge	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bridge	det
10	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 means	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 danse	punct
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 danse	case
13	y	y	X	Foreign=Yes	14 danse	dep
14	danse	danse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bridge	appos
15	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 dance	punct
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dance	nsubj
18	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 means	ccomp
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 dance	advmod
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 dance	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 means	cc
22	tous	tous	X	Foreign=Yes	24 rond	amod
23	en	en	X	Foreign=Yes	24 rond	compound
24	rond	rond	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 means	nsubj
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 means	parataxis
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 all	punct
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 circle	det
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 circle	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 circle	det
30	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 means	obj
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 circle	punct
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 has	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bridge	det
34	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 bridge	amod
35	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 has	nsubj
36	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 means	conj
37	only	only	ADV	_	38 four	advmod
38	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 arches	nummod
39	arches	arch	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 has	obj
40	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 arches	acl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 stops	cc
42	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 arches	conj
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 middle	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 middle	det
45	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 stops	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 river	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 river	det
48	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 middle	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 bridge	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	le pont and le pont	the bridge		tree rules
2	mean	present	the bridge			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	dance in a quote	present	people		there	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	mean	present	tous en rond	all circle		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circle=Topic
5	have	present	the real bridge	four arches		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arch=Patient
6	leave	participle		four arches not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	stop	present	the real bridge not said here		the middle of the river	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=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:7.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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