What trade carried: tomatoes, tea, horses, words, religions and diseases, sentence 4

So when someone says a food is «always» from somewhere, ask: since when, and who brought it?

Who acts: someone, food, you · What happens: say, be, ask, bring · To what, where: food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «What trade carried: tomatoes, tea, horses, words, religions and diseases» 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 (someone, food, you), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 says	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 says	advmod
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ask	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 food	det
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 «	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 «	cop
8	«	«	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 «	advmod
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 «	punct
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 somewhere	case
12	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 «	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 «	punct
14	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 ask	punct
16	since	since	SCONJ	_	21 brought	mark
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 brought	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 brought	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 brought	cc
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	21 brought	nsubj
21	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ask	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 brought	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 ask	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	someone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	a food		always, « property	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bring	past		food		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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:071-what-trade-carried-tomatoes-tea-horses-words-and-diseases.lesson:4.

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 ×2, R6-punct-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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