Finders keepers and what belongs to whom, sentence 16

In the novel Les Misérables, Jean Valjean is sent to prison for years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's hungry children.

What happens: send, steal, feed · To what, where: Jean, novel, loaf, hungry children

This is a sentence of the lesson «Finders keepers and what belongs to whom» 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: 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 novel	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 novel	det
3	novel	novel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sent	obl
4	Les	Les	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 novel	appos
5	Misérables	Misérables	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Les	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Les	punct
7	Jean	Jean	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sent	nsubj:pass
8	Valjean	Valjean	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Jean	flat
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sent	aux:pass
10	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 prison	case
12	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sent	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 years	case
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sent	obl
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 stealing	mark
16	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 sent	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 loaf	det
18	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stealing	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 bread	case
20	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 loaf	nmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 feed	mark
22	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 stealing	advcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 sister	nmod:poss
24	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 children	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 sister	case
26	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 children	amod
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 feed	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sent	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present · passive	Jean		the novel	year	to prison	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in novel=Destination
2	steal	gerund	a loaf of bread					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location loaf=Theme
3	feed	to-infinitive		Jean's sister's hungry children				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient

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:042-finders-keepers-and-what-belongs-to-whom.lesson:16.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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