Animals, sentence 13
St Francis of Assisi called animals his brothers and sisters and, the story says, preached to the birds.
Who acts: St Francis, story · What happens: call, say, preach · To what, where: animals, birds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals» 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 Francis, story), 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 Francis | flat |
| 2 | Francis | Francis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Assisi | case |
| 4 | Assisi | Assisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Francis | nmod |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 called | obj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 called | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sisters | cc |
| 10 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 brothers | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 says | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 and | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 says | nsubj |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 preached | punct |
| 17 | preached | preach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 birds | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 birds | det |
| 20 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 preached | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | St Francis of Assisi | animals | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the story | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | preach speech: other | past | St Francis of Assisi not said here | the birds | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to bird=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:046-animals.lesson:13.
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. 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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