Time zones and the date line, sentence 7

Before railways each town kept its own local time from the Sun, and British railways began using London time in the 1840s, with the law following in 1880.

Who acts: town, British railways, law · What happens: keep, begin, use, follow · To what, where: Sun, 1840s, 1880

This is a sentence of the lesson «Time zones and the date line» of the geography 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 (town, British railways, law), 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	Before	before	ADP	_	2 railways	case
2	railways	railway	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	obl
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 town	det
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 time	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
8	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 Sun	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sun	det
12	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
15	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 railways	amod
16	railways	railway	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
18	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 began	xcomp
19	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 time	compound
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 using	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 1840s	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 1840s	det
23	1840s	1840s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 using	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 law	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 law	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 law	det
27	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 began	obl
28	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 law	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 1880	case
30	1880	1880	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 following	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	each town	the Sun	before railways; time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent before railway=Location
2	begin	past	British railways			with the law	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	use	gerund	British railways not said here	the 1840s	time		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	follow	gerund	the law not said here	1880			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 1880=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:geography:004-time-zones-and-the-date-line.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): 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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