Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other, sentence 1
Wren's friend adds that peoples without writing had no laws, just chaos.
Who acts: friend, peoples · What happens: add, have · To what, where: laws · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other» 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 (friend, peoples), 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 | Wren | Wren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Wren | case |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 adds | nsubj |
| 4 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 had | mark |
| 6 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | nsubj |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 writing | case |
| 8 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 peoples | nmod |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 adds | ccomp |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 laws | det |
| 11 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chaos | punct |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 chaos | advmod |
| 14 | chaos | chaos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laws | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 adds | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present | Wren's friend | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | past | peoples without writing | no laws | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Patient |
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:063-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other.lesson:1.
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 ×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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