Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation, sentence 13

William Shakespeare wrote plays such as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth around 1600 for the Globe theatre in London, and he first wrote down many words and phrases still used today, such as wild-goose chase.

Who acts: William · What happens: write, write down, use · To what, where: plays, 1600, many words

This is a sentence of the lesson «Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation» 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 (William), 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	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	nsubj
2	Shakespeare	Shakespeare	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 William	flat
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	plays	play	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wrote	obj
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	7 Romeo	case
6	as	as	ADP	_	5 such	fixed
7	Romeo	Romeo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 plays	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Juliet	cc
9	Juliet	Juliet	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Romeo	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Hamlet	punct
11	Hamlet	Hamlet	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Romeo	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Macbeth	cc
13	Macbeth	Macbeth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Romeo	conj
14	around	around	ADP	_	15 1600	case
15	1600	1600	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 wrote	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 theatre	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 theatre	det
18	Globe	Globe	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 theatre	compound
19	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 London	case
21	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 theatre	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wrote	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wrote	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wrote	nsubj
25	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 wrote	advmod
26	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wrote	conj
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 wrote	compound:prt
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 words	amod
29	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 wrote	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 phrases	cc
31	phrases	phrase	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 words	conj
32	still	still	ADV	_	33 used	advmod
33	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 words	acl:relcl
34	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 used	obl:unmarked
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 chase	punct
36	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	41 chase	case
37	as	as	ADP	_	36 such	fixed
38	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 goose	amod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 wild	punct
40	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 chase	compound
41	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 words	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	William	plays	1600		such Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet and Macbeth; for the Globe theatre in London	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent play=Result for theatre=Beneficiary
2	write down	past	William	many words and phrases			such goose chase; first property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	use	participle		many words and phrases not said here		still; today		vn eat-39.1 «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:025-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation.lesson:13.

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): R7-rel-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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