Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science, sentence 18
In Britain a law of 1850 let towns fund free public libraries, and Andrew Carnegie paid for about 2,500 library buildings around 1900.
Who acts: law, towns, Andrew Carnegie · What happens: let, fund, pay · To what, where: Britain, free public libraries, 1900
This is a sentence of the lesson «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» 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 (law, towns, Andrew Carnegie), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Britain | case |
| 2 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 let | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 law | det |
| 4 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 let | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 1850 | case |
| 6 | 1850 | 1850 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 law | nmod |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fund | nsubj |
| 9 | fund | fund | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 10 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 libraries | amod |
| 11 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 libraries | amod |
| 12 | libraries | library | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fund | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 paid | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 paid | cc |
| 15 | Andrew | Andrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Carnegie | compound |
| 16 | Carnegie | Carnegie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 paid | nsubj |
| 17 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 buildings | case |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 2,500 | advmod |
| 20 | 2,500 | 2500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 buildings | nummod |
| 21 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 buildings | compound |
| 22 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 paid | obl |
| 23 | around | around | ADP | _ | 24 1900 | case |
| 24 | 1900 | 1900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 paid | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | a law of 1850 | Britain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fund | infinitive | towns | free public libraries | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pay | past | Andrew Carnegie | 1900 | for 2,500 library buildings | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for building=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:064-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science.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): no change. 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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