Ancient times and famous stories, sentence 14

Paul Revere's ride was meant to be secret, and the colonists (people living in Britain's lands in America) then thought of themselves as British; he is reported to have warned that "the Regulars are coming out", meaning the British army soldiers.

Who acts: people, colonists, Regulars, Paul · What happens: mean, be, live, think, report, warn · To what, where: ride, lands, British army soldiers · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (people, colonists, Regulars, Paul), 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	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ride	nmod:poss
2	Revere	Revere	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Paul	flat
3	's	's	PART	_	1 Paul	case
4	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meant	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 meant	aux:pass
6	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 secret	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 secret	cop
9	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 meant	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 thought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 thought	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 colonists	det
13	colonists	colonist	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 thought	nsubj
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 people	punct
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 colonists	appos
16	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 people	acl
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 lands	case
18	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 lands	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Britain	case
20	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 living	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 America	case
22	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 lands	nmod
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 people	punct
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 thought	advmod
25	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 meant	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 themselves	case
27	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 thought	obl
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 British	case
29	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 thought	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 reported	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 reported	nsubj:pass
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 reported	aux:pass
33	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 meant	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	36 warned	mark
35	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 warned	aux
36	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 reported	xcomp
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 coming	mark
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 coming	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Regulars	det
40	Regulars	regular	PROPN	Number=Plur	42 coming	nsubj
41	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 coming	aux
42	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 warned	ccomp
43	out	out	ADP	_	42 coming	compound:prt
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 coming	punct
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 meaning	punct
46	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 coming	advcl
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 soldiers	det
48	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 soldiers	amod
49	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 soldiers	compound
50	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 meaning	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 meant	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past · passive		Paul's ride				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive					secret property	tree rules
3	live	gerund	people not said here		Britain's lands in America			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location
4	think speech: other	past	the colonists			then	of people; as British	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	report	present · passive		ride				tree rules
6	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive · perfect						vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	come out in a quote	present · progressive	the Regulars					vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
8	mean	gerund	the Regulars not said here	the British army soldiers				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Topic
9	ride		Paul					nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent

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:14.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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