How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory, sentence 17
In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII brought in the Gregorian calendar: Thursday 4 October was followed by Friday 15 October, skipping 10 dates.
Who acts: Pope Gregory · What happens: bring in, follow, skip · To what, where: Gregorian calendar, 1582, Thursday, 10 dates
This is a sentence of the lesson «How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory» of the world 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 (Pope Gregory), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1582 | case |
| 2 | 1582 | 1582 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 brought | obl |
| 3 | Pope | pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gregory | compound |
| 4 | Gregory | Gregory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | nsubj |
| 5 | XIII | XIII | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 4 Gregory | flat |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 brought | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 calendar | det |
| 9 | Gregorian | gregorian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 calendar | amod |
| 10 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Thursday | punct |
| 12 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 Thursday | flat |
| 14 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Thursday | flat |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 followed | aux:pass |
| 16 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 brought | parataxis |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 15 | case |
| 18 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 followed | obl |
| 19 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 followed | obl |
| 20 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 15 | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 skipping | punct |
| 22 | skipping | skip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 followed | advcl |
| 23 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 dates | nummod |
| 24 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 skipping | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in | past | Pope Gregory | the Gregorian calendar | 1582 | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme calendar=Asset | |||
| 2 | follow | past · passive | Thursday | friday | by 15 October | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme by 15=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | skip | gerund | 10 dates | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Agent |
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:world:116-how-our-calendar-was-made.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): R5-strong ×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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