Britain and Ireland: a short story, sentence 1
In 1066 William of Normandy won the Battle of Hastings, and the Bayeux Tapestry tells the story in pictures like a giant embroidered comic strip.
Who acts: William, Bayeux Tapestry · What happens: win, tell, embroider · To what, where: Battle, 1066, story, pictures · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Britain and Ireland: a short story» 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, Bayeux Tapestry), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1066 | case |
| 2 | 1066 | 1066 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 won | obl |
| 3 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 won | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Normandy | case |
| 5 | Normandy | Normandy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 William | nmod |
| 6 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Battle | det |
| 8 | Battle | battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 won | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Hastings | case |
| 10 | Hastings | Hastings | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Battle | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tells | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tells | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Tapestry | det |
| 14 | Bayeux | Bayeux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Tapestry | compound |
| 15 | Tapestry | Tapestry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 tells | nsubj |
| 16 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 won | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 story | det |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tells | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 pictures | case |
| 20 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 tells | obl |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 strip | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 strip | det |
| 23 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 strip | amod |
| 24 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 strip | amod |
| 25 | comic | comic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 strip | amod |
| 26 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pictures | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 won | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | William of Normandy | the Battle of Hastings | 1066 | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | the Bayeux Tapestry | the story | pictures like a giant embroidered comic strip | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||
| 3 | embroider | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «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:037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.lesson:1.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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