The apostrophe war, sentence 9
St James' Park is the football ground in Newcastle; St James's Park is a royal park in London; for names, copy the official spelling.
Who acts: Park · What happens: be, copy · To what, where: football ground, Newcastle, royal park, London, official spelling
This is a sentence of the lesson «The apostrophe war» 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 (Park), 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 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 James | nmod:desc |
| 2 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Park | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 James | case |
| 4 | Park | Park | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ground | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ground | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 7 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ground | compound |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Newcastle | case |
| 10 | Newcastle | Newcastle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ground | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 park | punct |
| 12 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 James | nmod:desc |
| 13 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Park | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 James | case |
| 15 | Park | Park | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 park | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 park | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 park | det |
| 18 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 park | amod |
| 19 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ground | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 London | case |
| 21 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 park | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 names | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 names | case |
| 24 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ground | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 copy | punct |
| 26 | copy | copy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 names | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 spelling | det |
| 28 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 spelling | amod |
| 29 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 copy | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ground | 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 | is a | present | James St's Park | the football ground | Newcastle | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | James St's Park | a royal park | London | tree rules | |||
| 3 | copy | infinitive | the official spelling | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=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:language:015-the-apostrophe-war.lesson:9.
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): R7-rel-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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