Churches of the English-speaking world I, sentence 17
The Methodist Church was started by John and Charles Wesley in the 1700s; Charles wrote thousands of hymns.
Who acts: John, Charles · What happens: start, write · To what, where: Methodist Church, 1700s, thousands
This is a sentence of the lesson «Churches of the English-speaking world I» 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, Charles), 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 | 3 Church | det |
| 2 | Methodist | Methodist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Church | compound |
| 3 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 started | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 started | aux:pass |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 John | case |
| 7 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl:agent |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Charles | cc |
| 9 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 John | conj |
| 10 | Wesley | Wesley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Charles | flat |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1700s | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 1700s | det |
| 13 | 1700s | 1700 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 5 started | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 started | punct |
| 15 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 wrote | nsubj |
| 16 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 started | parataxis |
| 17 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wrote | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hymns | case |
| 19 | hymns | hymn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 thousands | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 started | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past · passive | John and Charles | the Methodist Church | the 1700s | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | write | past | Charles | thousands of hymns | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme |
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:028-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i.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): no change. 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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