Weather, lightning and storms, sentence 1
Weather sayings are old and many sound wise: too cold to snow, red sky at night, a wet September means a hard winter.
Who acts: Weather sayings, many, wet September · What happens: be, sound, mean
This is a sentence of the lesson «Weather, lightning and storms» of the myths 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 (Weather sayings, many, wet September), 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 | Weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sayings | compound |
| 2 | sayings | saying | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 old | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 old | cop |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sound | cc |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sound | nsubj |
| 7 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 old | conj |
| 8 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sound | xcomp |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 cold | punct |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 cold | advmod |
| 11 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 old | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 snow | case |
| 13 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cold | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sky | punct |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sky | amod |
| 16 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 snow | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sky | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 means | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 September | det |
| 21 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 September | amod |
| 22 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 means | nsubj |
| 23 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 old | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 winter | det |
| 25 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 winter | amod |
| 26 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 means | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 old | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Weather sayings | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sound | present | many | wise property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | a wet September | winter | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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:myths:015-weather-lightning-and-storms.lesson:1.
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 ×3. 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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