The First World War, sentence 9
On the Western Front armies dug long lines of trenches facing each other, muddy, wet and full of rats, and neither side could break through for years.
Who acts: armies, trenches, side · What happens: dig, face, break through · To what, where: long lines, Western Front, each
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 (armies, trenches, side), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 Front | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Front | det |
| 3 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Front | amod |
| 4 | Front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dug | obl |
| 5 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dug | nsubj |
| 6 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lines | amod |
| 8 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dug | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 trenches | case |
| 10 | trenches | trench | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lines | nmod |
| 11 | facing | face | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 trenches | acl |
| 12 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 11 facing | obj |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 each | fixed |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lines | punct |
| 15 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 trenches | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wet | punct |
| 17 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 muddy | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 full | cc |
| 19 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 muddy | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 rats | case |
| 21 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 full | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 break | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 break | cc |
| 24 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 side | det |
| 25 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 break | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 break | aux |
| 27 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dug | conj |
| 28 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 break | compound:prt |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 years | case |
| 30 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 break | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | past | armies | long lines of trenches | the Western Front | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent line=Theme on front=Location | |||
| 2 | face | gerund | trenches not said here | each | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme each=Destination | ||||
| 3 | break through | could | neither side | year | 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:9.
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): no change. 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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