Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses, sentence 18

The Greek writer Herodotus praised the Persian messengers, saying that neither snow nor rain nor heat nor night stopped them; his words are carved on the main post office in New York.

Who acts: Greek writer, snow, writer · What happens: praise, say, stop, carve, word · To what, where: Persian messengers, messengers, words, main post office · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses» 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 (Greek writer, snow, writer), 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	3 writer	det
2	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 writer	amod
3	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 praised	nsubj
4	Herodotus	Herodotus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 writer	appos
5	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 messengers	det
7	Persian	Persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 messengers	amod
8	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 praised	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 praised	advcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 stopped	mark
12	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	13 snow	det
13	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stopped	nsubj
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	15 rain	cc
15	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 snow	conj
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	17 heat	cc
17	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 snow	conj
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	19 night	cc
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 snow	conj
20	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saying	ccomp
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stopped	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 carved	punct
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 words	nmod:poss
24	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 carved	nsubj:pass
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 carved	aux:pass
26	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 praised	parataxis
27	on	on	ADP	_	31 office	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 office	det
29	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 office	amod
30	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 office	compound
31	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carved	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 York	case
33	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 York	compound
34	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 office	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 praised	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	praise	past	the Greek writer	the Persian messengers		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the Greek writer not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stop	past	neither snow nor rain nor heat nor night	messengers = messenger		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality they=Eventuality
4	carve	present · passive		writer's words	the main post office in New York	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on office=Destination
5	word		writer			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:18.

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 ×4, 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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