Ancient times and famous stories, sentence 13
In the Salem witch trials of 1692, nineteen people were hanged and one man was crushed to death with stones; nobody was burned there, though witches were burned in some other countries.
What happens: hange, crush, burn · To what, where: nineteen people, Salem witch trials, one man, nobody, witches, other countries
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 trials | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 trials | det |
| 3 | Salem | Salem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 trials | compound |
| 4 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trials | compound |
| 5 | trials | trial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hanged | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 1692 | case |
| 7 | 1692 | 1692 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 trials | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 trials | punct |
| 9 | nineteen | nineteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 people | nummod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hanged | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hanged | aux:pass |
| 12 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 crushed | cc |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 man | nummod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crushed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 crushed | aux:pass |
| 17 | crushed | crush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hanged | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 death | case |
| 19 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crushed | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 stones | case |
| 21 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 crushed | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 burned | punct |
| 23 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 burned | aux:pass |
| 25 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hanged | parataxis |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 burned | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 burned | punct |
| 28 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 31 burned | mark |
| 29 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 burned | nsubj |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 burned | aux:pass |
| 31 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 burned | advcl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 countries | case |
| 33 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 countries | det |
| 34 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 countries | amod |
| 35 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 burned | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hanged | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hange | past · passive | nineteen people | the Salem witch trials of 1692 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | crush | past · passive | one man | to death result; with stones | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: subject=Patient to death=Result with stone=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | burn | past · passive | nobody | there | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | burn | past · passive | witches | some other countries | 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:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson:13.
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 ×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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