Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news, sentence 13
A Chinese Cinderella story, Ye Xian, was written down around 850 CE, and similar stories are told in many cultures.
What happens: write down, tell · To what, where: Chinese Cinderella story, similar stories, many cultures · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news» 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: 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 | 4 story | det |
| 2 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 3 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 story | compound |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 written | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
| 6 | Ye | Ye | PROPN | _ | 7 Xian | flat |
| 7 | Xian | Xian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 story | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 written | aux:pass |
| 10 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 written | compound:prt |
| 12 | around | around | ADV | _ | 13 850 | advmod |
| 13 | 850 | 850 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 written | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | CE | ce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 850 | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 told | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 told | cc |
| 17 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stories | amod |
| 18 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 told | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 told | aux:pass |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 written | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 cultures | case |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cultures | amod |
| 23 | cultures | culture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 told | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 written | 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 | write down | past · passive | a Chinese Cinderella story | 850 CE obl:unmarked | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | similar stories | many cultures | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.lesson:13.
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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