The church year, sentence 17
St Patrick, St David, St Andrew and St George are the patron saints of Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England; a patron saint is a saint seen as the special friend and helper of a country, and people keep his day.
Who acts: St Patrick, patron saint, people · What happens: be, see, keep · To what, where: patron saints, saint
This is a sentence of the lesson «The church year» 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 (St Patrick, patron saint, people), 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 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Patrick | flat |
| 2 | Patrick | Patrick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 saints | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 David | punct |
| 4 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 David | flat |
| 5 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Patrick | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Andrew | punct |
| 7 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Andrew | flat |
| 8 | Andrew | Andrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Patrick | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 George | cc |
| 10 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 George | flat |
| 11 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Andrew | conj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 saints | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 saints | det |
| 14 | patron | patron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saints | compound |
| 15 | saints | saint | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Ireland | case |
| 17 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 saints | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Wales | punct |
| 19 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Ireland | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Scotland | punct |
| 21 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Ireland | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 England | cc |
| 23 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Ireland | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 saint | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 saint | det |
| 26 | patron | patron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 saint | compound |
| 27 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 saint | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 saint | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 saint | det |
| 30 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saints | parataxis |
| 31 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 saint | acl |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 friend | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 friend | det |
| 34 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 friend | amod |
| 35 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 seen | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 helper | cc |
| 37 | helper | helper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 friend | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 country | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 country | det |
| 40 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 friend | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 keep | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 keep | cc |
| 43 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 keep | nsubj |
| 44 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 saints | conj |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 day | nmod:poss |
| 46 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 keep | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 saints | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | St Patrick and St David and St Andrew and St George | the patron saints | of Ireland and Wales and Scotland and England | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | a patron saint | a saint | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | participle | a saint not said here | as the special friend of a country and helper | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as friend=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | keep | present | people | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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:religion-ethics:026-the-church-year.lesson:17.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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