The First World War, sentence 17

A Canadian doctor, John McCrae, wrote the poem In Flanders Fields about the red poppies that grew on the battlefields, and people wear poppies in November to remember those who died in wars.

Who acts: Canadian doctor, red poppies, people · What happens: write, grow, wear, remember, die · To what, where: poem, Flanders Fields, battlefields, poppies, those

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 (Canadian doctor, red poppies, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 doctor	det
2	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 doctor	amod
3	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrote	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 John	punct
5	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 doctor	appos
6	McCrae	McCrae	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 John	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 doctor	punct
8	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 poem	det
10	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrote	obj
11	In	in	ADP	_	13 Fields	case
12	Flanders	Flanders	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Fields	compound
13	Fields	field	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 poem	nmod
14	about	about	ADP	_	17 poppies	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 poppies	det
16	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 poppies	amod
17	poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Fields	nmod
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 grew	nsubj
19	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 poppies	acl:relcl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 battlefields	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 battlefields	det
22	battlefields	battlefield	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grew	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wear	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wear	cc
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 wear	nsubj
26	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wrote	conj
27	poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 wear	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 November	case
29	November	November	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 wear	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 remember	mark
31	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wear	advcl
32	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	31 remember	obj
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 died	nsubj
34	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 those	acl:relcl
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 wars	case
36	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 died	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	a Canadian doctor	the poem	Flanders Fields about the red poppies			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent poem=Theme in field=Destination
2	grow	past	the red poppies		the battlefields			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on battlefield=Location
3	wear	present	people	poppies		november		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent poppy=Source
4	remember	to-infinitive	people not said here	those				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent that=Theme
5	die	past					in wars	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in war=Attribute

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:17.

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. 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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