Silent letters and the mystery of -ough, sentence 12
Wednesday comes from "Woden's day", after the old Germanic god Woden, the same god the Norse called Odin.
Who acts: Wednesday, Norse · What happens: come, call · To what, where: same god · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Silent letters and the mystery of -ough» of the language 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 (Wednesday, Norse), 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 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 day | punct |
| 5 | Woden | Woden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 day | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Woden | case |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | obl |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 day | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 god | punct |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 god | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 god | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 god | amod |
| 13 | Germanic | Germanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 god | amod |
| 14 | god | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | obl |
| 15 | Woden | Woden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 god | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 god | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 god | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 god | amod |
| 19 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 god | appos |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Norse | det |
| 21 | Norse | Norse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 called | nsubj |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 god | acl:relcl |
| 23 | Odin | Odin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 called | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Wednesday | after the old Germanic god; day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | past | the Norse | the same god not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent god=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:language:013-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough.lesson:12.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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