Churches of the English-speaking world II, sentence 10
The Salvation Army was founded in London by William and Catherine Booth and is famous for brass bands and helping the poor; it wears uniforms because it sees itself as an army fighting poverty and sin.
Who acts: William, Army · What happens: found, be, help, wear, see, fight · To what, where: Salvation Army, London, poor, uniforms, Army, poverty
This is a sentence of the lesson «Churches of the English-speaking world II» 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 (William, Army), 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 Army | det |
| 2 | Salvation | Salvation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Army | compound |
| 3 | Army | Army | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 founded | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 founded | aux:pass |
| 5 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 London | case |
| 7 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 founded | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 William | case |
| 9 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 founded | obl:agent |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Catherine | cc |
| 11 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 William | conj |
| 12 | Booth | Booth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Catherine | flat |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 famous | cc |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 famous | cop |
| 15 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 founded | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 bands | case |
| 17 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bands | compound |
| 18 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 famous | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 helping | cc |
| 20 | helping | help | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 famous | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 poor | det |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 helping | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 wears | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 wears | nsubj |
| 25 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 founded | parataxis |
| 26 | uniforms | uniform | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 wears | obj |
| 27 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 29 sees | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sees | nsubj |
| 29 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 wears | advcl |
| 30 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 sees | obj |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 poverty | case |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 army | det |
| 33 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sees | obl |
| 34 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 army | acl |
| 35 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fighting | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 sin | cc |
| 37 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 poverty | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past · passive | William and Catherine | the Salvation Army | London | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | William and Catherine not said here | for brass bands; famous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | help | gerund | William and Catherine not said here | the poor | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poor=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | wear | present | Army | uniforms | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent uniform=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | present | Army | Army | a army obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer itself=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | fight | gerund | a army not said here | poverty and sin | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poverty=Co-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:029-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii.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): R5-strong ×5, 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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