Ancient times and famous stories, sentence 11
Stonehenge was begun about 5,000 years ago, more than 2,000 years before the Druids (priests of the ancient Celts) are first mentioned in history.
What happens: begin, mention · To what, where: Stonehenge, Druids, history
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient times and famous stories» 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: 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 | Stonehenge | Stonehenge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 begun | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 begun | aux:pass |
| 3 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 5,000 | advmod |
| 5 | 5,000 | 5000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 begun | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 years | punct |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 11 2,000 | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 more | fixed |
| 11 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 mentioned | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 Druids | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Druids | det |
| 15 | Druids | druid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 mentioned | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 priests | punct |
| 17 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Druids | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Celts | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Celts | det |
| 20 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Celts | amod |
| 21 | Celts | celt | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 priests | nmod |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 priests | punct |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 mentioned | aux:pass |
| 24 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 mentioned | advmod |
| 25 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 begun | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 history | case |
| 27 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mentioned | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begun | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · passive | Stonehenge | ago property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | mention speech: other | present · passive | the Druids | history | year | first property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson:11.
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 ×1, 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.
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