Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book, sentence 18
The story of young George Washington, later the first President of the USA, chopping down his father's cherry tree and saying "I cannot tell a lie" first appeared in Mason Locke Weems's biography (1806 edition) and is almost certainly invented.
Who acts: I, story · What happens: chop down, say, not tell, appear, invent · To what, where: cherry tree, lie, biography, Mason · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» 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 (I, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 George | case |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 George | amod |
| 5 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 story | nmod |
| 6 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 George | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 President | punct |
| 8 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 President | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 President | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 President | amod |
| 11 | President | President | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 George | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 USA | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 USA | det |
| 14 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 President | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 chopping | punct |
| 16 | chopping | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 story | appos |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 chopping | compound:prt |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tree | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 father | case |
| 21 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tree | compound |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chopping | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 saying | cc |
| 24 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 chopping | conj |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 tell | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 tell | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 tell | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 tell | advmod |
| 29 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 saying | ccomp |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 lie | det |
| 31 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tell | obj |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 tell | punct |
| 33 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 34 appeared | advmod |
| 34 | appeared | appear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Mason | case |
| 36 | Mason | Mason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 appeared | obl |
| 37 | Locke | Locke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Weems | compound |
| 38 | Weems | Weems | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Mason | flat |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 Weems | case |
| 40 | biography | biography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 appeared | obl |
| 41 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 43 edition | punct |
| 42 | 1806 | 1806 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 43 edition | nummod |
| 43 | edition | edition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 biography | appos |
| 44 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 edition | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 invented | cc |
| 46 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 invented | aux:pass |
| 47 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 48 certainly | advmod |
| 48 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 49 invented | advmod |
| 49 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 appeared | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chop down | gerund | story's father's cherry tree | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert in a quote | can | I | a lie | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | appear | participle | the story of young George | biography | Mason | first property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mason=Location | ||
| 5 | invent | present · passive | the story of young George not said here | certainly property | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V» |
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:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:18.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5. 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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