Souls, ghosts and stories, sentence 13
The headless horseman is an old legend, made famous in a story by Washington Irving in 1820.
Who acts: headless horseman · What happens: be, make · To what, where: old legend, story
This is a sentence of the lesson «Souls, ghosts and stories» 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 (headless horseman), 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 horseman | det |
| 2 | headless | headless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horseman | amod |
| 3 | horseman | horseman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 legend | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 legend | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 legend | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 legend | amod |
| 7 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 legend | acl |
| 10 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 made | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 story | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 story | det |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Washington | case |
| 15 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 story | nmod |
| 16 | Irving | Irving | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Washington | flat |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 1820 | case |
| 18 | 1820 | 1820 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 made | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 legend | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the headless horseman | a old legend | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a old legend not said here | a story by Washington | in 1820; famous property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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:074-souls-ghosts-and-stories.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): no change. 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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