Kings, queens and emperors, sentence 5

Napoleon was about 1.69 metres tall, an ordinary or even slightly tall height for a Frenchman of his time.

Who acts: Napoleon · What happens: be

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 (Napoleon), 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	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tall	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tall	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 1.69	advmod
4	1.69	1.69	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 metres	nummod
5	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tall	obl:unmarked
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 height	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 height	det
9	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 height	amod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 tall	cc
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 slightly	advmod
12	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	13 tall	advmod
13	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ordinary	conj
14	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tall	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 Frenchman	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Frenchman	det
17	Frenchman	frenchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 height	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 time	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 time	nmod:poss
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Frenchman	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tall	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Napoleon					1.69 metres obl:unmarked; tall 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:5.

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): R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/5/