Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us, sentence 3
Think of a leaky old house: no single drip brings it down, but many leaks together, year after year, do.
Who acts: you, single drip, many leaks · What happens: think, bring down, do · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us» of the history 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 (you, single drip, many leaks), 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 4 | leaky | leaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 brings | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 drip | det |
| 9 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 drip | amod |
| 10 | drip | drip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brings | nsubj |
| 11 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 brings | obj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 brings | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 do | cc |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 leaks | amod |
| 17 | leaks | leak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 do | nsubj |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 24 do | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 year | punct |
| 20 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 year | case |
| 22 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 year | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 brings | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of a leaky old house | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring down | present | no single drip | house | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | many leaks | year | together property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:history:016-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us.lesson:3.
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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