Ancient times and famous stories, sentence 3
Ancient Greek statues, for example, were painted in bright reds, blues and golds; the paint wore off over two thousand years, and later people copied the bare white stone and thought that was the look.
Who acts: paint, people, that · What happens: paint, wear off, copy, think, be · To what, where: Ancient Greek statues, bright reds, bare white stone, look · 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 (paint, people, that), 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 | Ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 statues | amod |
| 2 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 statues | amod |
| 3 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 painted | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 example | case |
| 6 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 painted | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 example | punct |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 painted | aux:pass |
| 9 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 copied | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 reds | case |
| 11 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 reds | amod |
| 12 | reds | red | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 painted | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 blues | punct |
| 14 | blues | blue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 reds | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 golds | cc |
| 16 | golds | gold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 reds | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 wore | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 paint | det |
| 19 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wore | nsubj |
| 20 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 painted | parataxis |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 wore | compound:prt |
| 22 | over | over | ADV | _ | 24 thousand | advmod |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 thousand | compound |
| 24 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 years | nummod |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wore | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 copied | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 copied | cc |
| 28 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 people | advmod |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 copied | nsubj |
| 30 | copied | copy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 stone | det |
| 32 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 stone | amod |
| 33 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 stone | amod |
| 34 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 copied | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 thought | cc |
| 36 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 copied | conj |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 look | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 look | cop |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 look | det |
| 40 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 thought | ccomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past · passive | Ancient Greek statues | bright reds and blues and golds | for example | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in red=Destination | |||
| 2 | wear off | past | the paint | year | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | copy | participle | people | the bare white stone | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | people not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | that | the look | 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:3.
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. 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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