Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes, sentence 6
Pliny the Younger wrote an eyewitness account of the AD 79 eruption, and tall ash-column eruptions are now called Plinian.
Who acts: Pliny · What happens: write, call, account · To what, where: eyewitness account, tall column eruptions, AD eruption · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes» 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 (Pliny), 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 | Pliny | Pliny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wrote | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Younger | det |
| 3 | Younger | young | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Pliny | flat |
| 4 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 account | det |
| 6 | eyewitness | eyewitness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 account | compound |
| 7 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrote | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 eruption | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eruption | det |
| 10 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eruption | compound |
| 11 | 79 | 79 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 AD | flat |
| 12 | eruption | eruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 account | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 called | cc |
| 15 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 eruptions | amod |
| 16 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 column | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ash | punct |
| 18 | column | column | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eruptions | compound |
| 19 | eruptions | eruption | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 called | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 called | aux:pass |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | _ | 22 called | advmod |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wrote | conj |
| 23 | Plinian | Plinian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 called | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | Pliny | a eyewitness account of the AD eruption | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | present · passive | tall column eruptions | now | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | account | the AD eruption | nom account «communication transitive»: of=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:geography:047-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes.lesson:6.
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): no change. 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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