Kings, queens and emperors, sentence 17
A story told by a ruler's enemies, or written down long after the event, is weak evidence and should be checked.
Who acts: story · What happens: tell, write down, be, check · To what, where: story, weak evidence · 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 (story), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 evidence | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 story | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 enemies | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ruler | det |
| 6 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 ruler | case |
| 8 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 written | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 written | cc |
| 11 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 told | conj |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 long | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 written | advmod |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 event | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 event | det |
| 16 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 written | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 story | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 evidence | cop |
| 19 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 evidence | amod |
| 20 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 checked | cc |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 checked | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 checked | aux:pass |
| 24 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 evidence | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 evidence | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | a story not said here | by a ruler's enemies | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | write down | participle | after the event | long property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a story | weak evidence | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | check | should · passive | a story not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP» |
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:17.
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): no change. 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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