Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other, sentence 19
A ruler's stamp on a coin promised its weight, so traders did not need to weigh metal every time.
Who acts: stamp, traders · What happens: promise, not need, weigh · To what, where: weight, metal
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 (stamp, traders), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ruler | det |
| 2 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stamp | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 ruler | case |
| 4 | stamp | stamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 promised | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 coin | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 coin | det |
| 7 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stamp | nmod |
| 8 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 weight | nmod:poss |
| 10 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 promised | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 need | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 need | advmod |
| 13 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 need | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 need | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 need | advmod |
| 16 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stamp | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 weigh | mark |
| 18 | weigh | weigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 need | xcomp |
| 19 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 weigh | obj |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 weigh | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stamp | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | a ruler's stamp on a coin | stamp's weight | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent weight=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not need | past · do-support | traders | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | weigh not said to happen | to-infinitive | traders not said here | metal | time | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme metal=Value |
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:19.
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 ×3. 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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