Kings, queens and emperors, sentence 15
Lady Godiva was a real noblewoman of the 1000s, but the story of her famous ride was first written down more than a hundred years after she died, and "Peeping Tom" was added centuries later still.
Who acts: Lady Godiva, Godiva · What happens: be, write down, die, add, ride · To what, where: real noblewoman, story, Peeping Tom
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 (Lady Godiva, Godiva), 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 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Godiva | compound |
| 2 | Godiva | Godiva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 noblewoman | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 noblewoman | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 noblewoman | det |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 noblewoman | amod |
| 6 | noblewoman | noblewoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 1000s | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 1000s | det |
| 9 | 1000s | 1000 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 6 noblewoman | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 written | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 written | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 story | det |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 written | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ride | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 ride | nmod:poss |
| 16 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ride | amod |
| 17 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 story | nmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 written | aux:pass |
| 19 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 written | advmod |
| 20 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 noblewoman | conj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 written | compound:prt |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 hundred | advmod |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 years | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hundred | det |
| 25 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 years | nummod |
| 26 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 written | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 29 died | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 died | nsubj |
| 29 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 written | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 added | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 added | cc |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Tom | punct |
| 33 | Peeping | Peeping | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Tom | compound |
| 34 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 added | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Tom | punct |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 added | aux:pass |
| 37 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 written | conj |
| 38 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 later | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 37 added | advmod |
| 40 | still | still | ADV | _ | 39 later | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 noblewoman | 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 | past | Lady Godiva | a real noblewoman | of the 1000s | tree rules | |||
| 2 | write down | past · passive | the story of Godiva's famous ride | year | first property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | die | past | Godiva | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | past · passive | Peeping Tom | late property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | ride | Godiva | nom ride «act transitive»: 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.
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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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