How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline, sentence 20
Our year numbers count from the birth of Jesus, worked out by a monk called Dionysius around the year 525; years before it count backwards, and BCE and CE mean the same as BC and AD.
Who acts: year numbers, birth, BCE · What happens: count, work out, call, mean · To what, where: birth, monk, same · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» 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 (year numbers, birth, BCE), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 numbers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 numbers | compound |
| 3 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 count | nsubj |
| 4 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 birth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 birth | det |
| 7 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 count | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Jesus | case |
| 9 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 birth | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 worked | punct |
| 11 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 birth | acl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 worked | compound:prt |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 monk | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 monk | det |
| 15 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 worked | obl |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 monk | acl |
| 17 | Dionysius | Dionysius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 18 | around | around | ADP | _ | 20 year | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 year | det |
| 20 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | obl |
| 21 | 525 | 525 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 year | flat |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 years | punct |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 count | obl |
| 24 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 26 count | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 count | nsubj |
| 26 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 mean | advcl |
| 27 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 26 count | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 mean | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 BCE | cc |
| 30 | BCE | BCE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 mean | nsubj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 CE | cc |
| 32 | CE | CE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 BCE | conj |
| 33 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 count | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 same | det |
| 35 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 mean | obj |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 BC | case |
| 37 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 mean | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 AD | cc |
| 39 | AD | AD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 BC | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 count | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | Our year numbers | the birth of Jesus | year | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | work out | participle | the birth of Jesus not said here | by a monk | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a monk not said here | year | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | count | present | birth | backwards property | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | BCE and CE | the same | as BC and AD | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent same=Topic as bc=Attribute |
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:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:20.
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, R7-rel-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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