Castles, knights and cathedrals, sentence 4

Meanwhile whole towns spent a hundred years or more building cathedrals, whose stained-glass windows told Bible stories to people who could not read.

Who acts: whole towns, glass windows, people · What happens: spend, stain, tell, not read · To what, where: more building cathedrals, Bible stories, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Castles, knights and cathedrals» 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 (whole towns, glass windows, people), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	4 spent	advmod
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 towns	amod
3	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spent	nsubj
4	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 years	det
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spent	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 more	cc
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 cathedrals	amod
10	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cathedrals	compound
11	cathedrals	cathedral	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spent	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spent	punct
13	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	17 windows	nmod:poss
14	stained	stain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 glass	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 stained	punct
16	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 windows	compound
17	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cathedrals	acl:relcl
19	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 stories	compound
20	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 told	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 people	case
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 told	obl
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 read	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 read	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 read	advmod
26	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 people	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spent	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	whole towns	more building cathedrals		year	meanwhile property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cathedral=Asset
2	stain	participle						vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	glass windows	Bible stories	people			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to people=Recipient
4	not read	could	people					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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:021-castles-knights-and-cathedrals.lesson:4.

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 ×2. 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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