Kings, queens and emperors, sentence 0
Ruby is sure Napoleon was tiny and bossy because of it, Henry swears Nero fiddled while Rome burned, and the quote card on the wall says Marie Antoinette told hungry people to "eat cake".
Who acts: Ruby, Napoleon, Henry, Nero, Rome, quote card · What happens: be, swear, fiddle, burn, say, tell · To what, where: hungry people, cake · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Kings, queens and emperors» 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 (Ruby, Napoleon, Henry, Nero), 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 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | Napoleon | Napoleon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tiny | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tiny | cop |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bossy | cc |
| 8 | bossy | bossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tiny | conj |
| 9 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 11 it | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 because | fixed |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bossy | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 swears | punct |
| 13 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 swears | nsubj |
| 14 | swears | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 15 | Nero | Nero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 fiddled | nsubj |
| 16 | fiddled | fiddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 swears | ccomp |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 burned | mark |
| 18 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 burned | nsubj |
| 19 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fiddled | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 says | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 says | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 card | det |
| 23 | quote | quote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 card | compound |
| 24 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 says | nsubj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 wall | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wall | det |
| 27 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 card | nmod |
| 28 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | conj |
| 29 | Marie | Marie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 told | nsubj |
| 30 | Antoinette | Antoinette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Marie | flat |
| 31 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 says | ccomp |
| 32 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 people | amod |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 told | iobj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 eat | mark |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 eat | punct |
| 36 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 told | xcomp |
| 37 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 eat | obj |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 eat | punct |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Ruby | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Napoleon | tiny property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Napoleon not said here | because it | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | swear | present | Henry | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fiddle | past | Nero | vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | burn | past | Rome | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | present | the quote card on the wall | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | tell speech: assert | past | Marie | hungry people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 9 | eat not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Marie not said here | cake | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient |
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:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson:0.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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