China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall, sentence 16
The legend of Meng Jiangnu tells of a wife whose husband died building the wall, and whose weeping brought a section down; it shows how much the builders suffered.
Who acts: legend, husband, weeping, it, builders · What happens: tell, die, build, bring down, show, suffer · To what, where: wall, section · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall» 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 (legend, husband, weeping, it), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 legend | det |
| 2 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tells | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tells | case |
| 4 | Meng | Meng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 legend | nmod |
| 5 | Jiangnu | Jiangnu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Meng | flat |
| 6 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wife | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wife | det |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tells | obl |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 husband | nmod:poss |
| 11 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 died | nsubj |
| 12 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wife | acl:relcl |
| 13 | building | build | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 died | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wall | det |
| 15 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 building | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brought | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 brought | cc |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 weeping | nmod:poss |
| 19 | weeping | weep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | nsubj |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 died | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 section | det |
| 22 | section | section | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obj |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 brought | advmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 shows | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 shows | nsubj |
| 26 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tells | parataxis |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 much | advmod |
| 28 | much | much | ADV | _ | 31 suffered | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 builders | det |
| 30 | builders | builder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 suffered | nsubj |
| 31 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 shows | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | the legend Meng | of a wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | die | past | husband | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | build | gerund | husband not said here | the wall | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wall=Product | ||||
| 4 | bring down | past | weeping | a section | down property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent section=Theme | |||
| 5 | show | present | it | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | suffer | past | the builders | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
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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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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