Britain and Ireland: a short story, sentence 14
Irish monks made beautiful books such as the Book of Kells and kept learning alive across Europe, and Saint Patrick is Ireland's patron saint.
Who acts: Irish monks, Saint Patrick · What happens: make, keep, learn, be · To what, where: beautiful books, Europe, patron saint
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 (Irish monks, Saint Patrick), 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 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 monks | amod |
| 2 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 books | amod |
| 5 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 9 Book | case |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 such | fixed |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Book | det |
| 9 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 books | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Kells | case |
| 11 | Kells | Kells | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Book | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kept | cc |
| 13 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 14 | learning | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 kept | xcomp |
| 15 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 learning | xcomp |
| 16 | across | across | ADP | _ | 17 Europe | case |
| 17 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 learning | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 saint | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 saint | cc |
| 20 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Patrick | compound |
| 21 | Patrick | Patrick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 saint | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 saint | cop |
| 23 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 saint | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Ireland | case |
| 25 | patron | patron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 saint | compound |
| 26 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Irish monks | beautiful books | such the Book of Kells | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Product | |||
| 2 | keep | past | Irish monks not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | learn | gerund | Irish monks not said here | Europe | alive property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | is a | present | Saint Patrick | Ireland's patron saint | tree rules |
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:14.
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): 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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