The First World War, sentence 10

At Christmas 1914 in some places soldiers on both sides stopped fighting, sang carols, swapped gifts and played football in no man's land, the ground between the trenches.

Who acts: soldiers · What happens: stop, fight, sing, swap, play · To what, where: places, Christmas, 1914, gifts, football, land

This is a sentence of the lesson «The First World War» 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 (soldiers), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 Christmas	case
2	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 stopped	obl
3	1914	1914	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 sang	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 soldiers	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 places	det
6	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stopped	obl
7	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stopped	nsubj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 sides	case
9	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 sides	det
10	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 soldiers	nmod
11	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stopped	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sang	punct
14	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stopped	conj
15	carols	carol	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sang	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 swapped	punct
17	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sang	conj
18	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 swapped	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 played	cc
20	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 swapped	conj
21	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 played	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	26 land	case
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 land	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 man	case
26	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 played	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ground	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ground	det
29	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 land	appos
30	between	between	ADP	_	32 trenches	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 trenches	det
32	trenches	trench	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ground	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 sang	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stop	past	soldiers on both sides	some places	Christmas	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	fight	gerund	soldiers on both sides not said here			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sing speech: express	past	soldiers on both sides not said here	1914		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location carol=Theme
4	swap	past	soldiers on both sides not said here	gifts		vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme
5	play	past	soldiers on both sides not said here	football	no man's land	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=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:033-the-first-world-war.lesson:10.

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 ×5, 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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