Ancient times and famous stories, sentence 15
The famous "The British are coming!" version comes mostly from a poem written in 1860, long after the ride.
Who acts: British, famous version · What happens: come, write · To what, where: poem, 1860 · 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 (British, famous version), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 version | det |
| 2 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 version | amod |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 coming | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 British | det |
| 5 | British | British | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 coming | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 coming | aux |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 famous | parataxis |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 coming | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 coming | punct |
| 10 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 comes | nsubj |
| 11 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 15 poem | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 poem | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 poem | det |
| 15 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 comes | obl |
| 16 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 poem | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 1860 | case |
| 18 | 1860 | 1860 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 written | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ride | punct |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 ride | advmod |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 ride | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ride | det |
| 23 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 written | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · progressive | the British | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | present | the famous version | a poem | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from poem=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | write | participle | a poem not said here | 1860 | after the ride | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in 1860=Destination |
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:15.
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. 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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