Weather, lightning and storms, sentence 12

"Red sky at night, shepherd's delight" is partly true in places like Britain, where weather usually comes from the west, but it isn't reliable everywhere.

Who acts: Red sky, weather, shepherd · What happens: be, come, not be, delight · To what, where: places, west

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 (Red sky, weather, shepherd), 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	_	3 sky	punct
2	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sky	amod
3	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 true	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sky	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sky	punct
7	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 delight	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 shepherd	case
9	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sky	appos
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 delight	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 true	cop
12	partly	partly	ADV	_	13 true	advmod
13	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 places	case
15	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 true	obl
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 Britain	case
17	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 places	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Britain	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 comes	advmod
20	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 comes	nsubj
21	usually	usually	ADV	_	22 comes	advmod
22	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 Britain	acl:relcl
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 west	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 west	det
25	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 comes	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 reliable	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 reliable	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 reliable	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 reliable	cop
30	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 reliable	advmod
31	reliable	reliable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 true	conj
32	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	31 reliable	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 true	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Red sky at night	places like Britain	partly, true property	tree rules
2	come	present	weather	the west	usually property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from west=Initial_Location
3	not is	present	weather		everywhere, reliable property	tree rules
4	delight in a quote		shepherd			nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=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: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 ×1, R8-pos-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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