Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Prayer, sentence 10
«Amazing Grace» was written by John Newton, a former slave-ship captain who changed his life.
Who acts: John, former ship captain · What happens: write, change · To what, where: Amazing Grace, life
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Prayer» of the religion ethics 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 (John, former ship captain), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 Grace | punct |
| 2 | Amazing | amazing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Grace | amod |
| 3 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 written | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 Grace | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 written | aux:pass |
| 6 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 John | case |
| 8 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 written | obl:agent |
| 9 | Newton | Newton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 John | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 captain | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 captain | det |
| 12 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 captain | amod |
| 13 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ship | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 slave | punct |
| 15 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 captain | compound |
| 16 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 John | appos |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 changed | nsubj |
| 18 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 captain | acl:relcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 changed | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 written | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · passive | John | Amazing Grace | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | change | past | a former ship captain | Grace's life | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient |
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:religion-ethics:023-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer.lesson:10.
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): 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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