Kings, queens and emperors, sentence 1
Famous rulers collect stories the way a celebrity collects gossip: enemies drew rude cartoons, writers made up neat quotes, and painters and films added the rest hundreds of years later.
Who acts: Famous rulers, celebrity, enemies, writers, painters · What happens: collect, draw, make up, add · To what, where: stories, gossip, rude cartoons, neat quotes, rest
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 (Famous rulers, celebrity, enemies, writers), 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 | Famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rulers | amod |
| 2 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 collect | nsubj |
| 3 | collect | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 collect | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 collect | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 celebrity | det |
| 8 | celebrity | celebrity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 collects | nsubj |
| 9 | collects | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 way | acl:relcl |
| 10 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 collects | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 drew | punct |
| 12 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 drew | nsubj |
| 13 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 collects | conj |
| 14 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cartoons | amod |
| 15 | cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 drew | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 17 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 collect | parataxis |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 made | compound:prt |
| 20 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 quotes | amod |
| 21 | quotes | quote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 made | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 added | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 added | cc |
| 24 | painters | painter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 added | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 films | cc |
| 26 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 painters | conj |
| 27 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rest | det |
| 29 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 added | obj |
| 30 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 added | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 years | case |
| 32 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 later | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 added | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 collect | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | present | Famous rulers | stories | the way obl:unmarked | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | |||
| 2 | collect | present | a celebrity | gossip | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gossip=Theme | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | enemies | rude cartoons | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cartoon=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make up | past | writers | neat quotes | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme quote=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | add speech: assert | past | painters and films | the rest | late property | tree rules |
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: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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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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