Words that changed their meaning, sentence 14

"Clue" comes from "clew", a ball of thread; in a Greek myth the hero Theseus used a ball of thread to find his way out of a maze called the labyrinth.

Who acts: Clue, hero, labyrinth · What happens: come, use, find, call · To what, where: clew, ball, Greek myth, way, maze · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Words that changed their meaning» 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 (Clue, hero, labyrinth), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Clue	punct
2	Clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Clue	punct
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 clew	case
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 clew	punct
7	clew	clew	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 clew	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ball	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ball	det
11	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clew	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 thread	case
13	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ball	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 used	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 myth	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 myth	det
17	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 myth	amod
18	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 used	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hero	det
20	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 used	nsubj
21	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 hero	appos
22	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 comes	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 ball	det
24	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 used	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 thread	case
26	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ball	nmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 find	mark
28	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 used	advcl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 way	nmod:poss
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 find	obj
31	out	out	ADP	_	34 maze	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 maze	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 maze	det
34	maze	maze	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 find	obl
35	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 maze	acl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 labyrinth	det
37	labyrinth	labyrinth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 called	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 comes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	present	Clue		clew	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from clew=Initial_Location
2	use	past	the hero	a ball of thread	a Greek myth	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient
3	find	to-infinitive	the hero not said here	hero's way	a maze	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
4	call	participle	the labyrinth	a maze not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent maze=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:038-words-that-changed-their-meaning.lesson:14.

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 ×4, 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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