Why some places grew rich, sentence 4
So ask not only «what did they have?» but «what did they do with it?»
Who acts: you, Singapore · What happens: ask, not have, do · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why some places grew rich» 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 (you, Singapore), 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 | _ | 2 ask | advmod |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 have | advmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 have | advmod |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 have | obj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ask | ccomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 do | cc |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 do | obj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ask | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not have in a quote | past · do-support | Singapore | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past · do-support | Singapore | with place | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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:072-why-some-places-grew-rich.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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