Getting old: how long people and animals live, sentence 18
Many cultures, including Chinese and Ukrainian families, give the oldest people great honour.
Who acts: Many cultures · What happens: give · To what, where: great honour, oldest people
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 (Many cultures), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cultures | amod |
| 2 | cultures | culture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 give | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 families | punct |
| 4 | including | including | ADP | _ | 8 families | case |
| 5 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 families | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Ukrainian | cc |
| 7 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Chinese | conj |
| 8 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cultures | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cultures | punct |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 12 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 give | iobj |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 honour | amod |
| 15 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Many cultures including Chinese families | great honour | the oldest people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient honour=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.
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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 ×2. 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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