Kings, queens and emperors, sentence 2

Historians work like detectives: they ask who first told the story, how long after the event, and whether that person was there or had a reason to make the ruler look bad.

Who acts: Historians, person, ruler · What happens: work, ask, tell, be, have, make · To what, where: story, reason, ruler · 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 (Historians, person, ruler), 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	Historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 work	nsubj
2	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 detectives	case
4	detectives	detective	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 work	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 ask	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ask	nsubj
7	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 work	parataxis
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 told	nsubj
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 told	advmod
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ask	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 story	det
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 long	punct
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 long	advmod
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 told	advmod
16	after	after	ADP	_	18 event	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 event	det
18	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 long	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 there	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 there	cc
21	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	25 there	mark
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 person	det
23	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 there	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 there	cop
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 ask	advmod
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ask	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 reason	det
29	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 make	mark
31	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 reason	acl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ruler	det
33	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 make	obj
34	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 make	xcomp
35	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 look	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 work	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	work	present	Historians		like detectives	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	present	Historians = historian			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	past		the story	first, long property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
4	is	past	that person		there property	tree rules
5	have	past	Historians = historian not said here	a reason		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
6	make	to-infinitive	Historians = historian not said here	the ruler		tree rules
7	look	infinitive	the ruler not said here		bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:2.

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): 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/2/