The First World War, sentence 2

Many soldiers thought it would be over by Christmas, but on the Western Front both sides dug long muddy trenches and neither could break through for years.

Who acts: Many soldiers, most, sides · What happens: think, be, dig, break through · To what, where: long muddy trenches, Western Front · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Many soldiers, most, sides), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 soldiers	amod
2	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 over	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 over	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 over	cop
7	over	over	ADV	_	3 thought	ccomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 Christmas	case
9	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dug	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 dug	cc
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 Front	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Front	det
14	Western	Western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Front	amod
15	Front	Front	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 dug	obl
16	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	17 sides	det
17	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dug	nsubj
18	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 trenches	amod
20	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 trenches	amod
21	trenches	trench	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dug	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 break	cc
23	neither	neither	ADV	_	25 break	advmod
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 break	aux
25	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 dug	conj
26	through	through	ADP	_	25 break	compound:prt
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 years	case
28	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 break	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Many soldiers				by Christmas	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	most				over property	tree rules
3	dig	past	both sides	long muddy trenches	the Western Front			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trench=Theme on front=Location
4	break through	could	both sides not said here			year	neither property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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: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, R7-rel-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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