Getting old: how long people and animals live, sentence 17
The words «a time to be born and a time to die» come from the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible.
Who acts: words · What happens: bear, die, come · To what, where: book
This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting old: how long people and animals live» 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 (words), 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 | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 come | nsubj |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | appos |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 born | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 born | aux:pass |
| 8 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 time | acl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 time | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 die | mark |
| 13 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 time | acl |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 book | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 book | det |
| 18 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Ecclesiastes | case |
| 20 | Ecclesiastes | Ecclesiastes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 book | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Bible | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Bible | det |
| 23 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 book | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | the words not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | |||||
| 2 | die in a quote | to-infinitive | the words not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | come | present | the words | the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from book=Initial_Location |
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:052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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