Tenses: past, present and future, sentence 14
The past continuous is was or were plus an -ing verb, for an action in progress in the past: "I was swimming".
Who acts: British speakers · What happens: be, swim · To what, where: past continuous, ing verb, action
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tenses: past, present and future» 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 (British speakers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 continuous | det |
| 2 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 continuous | amod |
| 3 | continuous | continuous | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 continuous | cop |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 verb | cop |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 verb | cc |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 verb | cop |
| 8 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 12 verb | cc |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 verb | det |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 an | punct |
| 11 | ing | ing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 verb | compound |
| 12 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continuous | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 action | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 action | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 action | det |
| 16 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 verb | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 progress | case |
| 18 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 action | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 past | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 past | det |
| 21 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 progress | nmod |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 swimming | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 swimming | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 swimming | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 swimming | aux |
| 26 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 action | acl:relcl |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 swimming | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continuous | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the past continuous or a ing verb and a action in progress in the past | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | a ing verb and a action in progress in the past | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | swim in a quote | past · progressive | British speakers = speaker | a action in progress in the past not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme action=Trajectory |
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:008-tenses-past-present-future.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): 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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