The Mongols, sentence 2

Their armies were fast because every rider brought several horses and swapped to a fresh one when the first got tired, like a relay team that never stops running.

Who acts: armies, first, relay team · What happens: be, bring, swap, get, not stop, run · To what, where: rider, fresh one

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Mongols» 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 (armies, first, relay team), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 armies	nmod:poss
2	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fast	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fast	cop
4	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 brought	mark
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 rider	det
7	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brought	nsubj:pass
8	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fast	advcl
9	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 horses	amod
10	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 brought	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 swapped	cc
12	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 brought	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 one	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 one	det
15	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 one	amod
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swapped	obl
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 got	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 first	det
19	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 got	nsubj
20	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 swapped	advcl
21	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 got	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 team	punct
23	like	like	ADP	_	26 team	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 team	det
25	relay	relay	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 team	compound
26	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swapped	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 stops	nsubj
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 stops	advmod
29	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 team	acl:relcl
30	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 stops	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fast	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	grandsons's armies			fast property	tree rules
2	bring	past · passive		every rider			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme horse=Destination
3	swap	past			a fresh one	like a relay team	vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
4	get	past	the first			tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	not stop	present	a relay team				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	run	gerund	a relay team not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:023-the-mongols.lesson:2.

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, R8-pos-agree ×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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