China: 1911, 1949 and Mao, sentence 10
Wise: say what happened, gently and fairly, and listen to the family stories.
Who acts: you · What happens: say, happen, listen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «China: 1911, 1949 and Mao» 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 (you), 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 | Wise | wise | ADV | _ | 3 say | advmod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gently | punct |
| 7 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 5 happened | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fairly | cc |
| 9 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 7 gently | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 listen | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 listen | cc |
| 12 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 stories | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stories | det |
| 15 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stories | compound |
| 16 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 listen | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wise | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | wise property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | gently property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | listen | infinitive | to the family stories | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme |
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:058-china-1911-1949-and-mao.lesson:10.
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): R6-punct-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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