Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses, sentence 15

The Greeks called the water clock a clepsydra, meaning "water thief", and used it to give each speaker in court the same time.

Who acts: Greeks · What happens: call, mean, use, give · To what, where: water clock, water thief, clock, speaker, court · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses» 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 (Greeks), 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 Greeks	det
2	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clock	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clock	compound
6	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 clepsydra	det
8	clepsydra	clepsydra	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 meaning	punct
10	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 called	advcl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 thief	punct
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thief	compound
13	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 meaning	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 thief	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 used	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 used	cc
17	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 used	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 give	mark
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 used	xcomp
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 speaker	det
22	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 court	case
24	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 speaker	nmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 time	det
26	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 time	amod
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	call	past	the Greeks	the water clock			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent clock=Recipient
2	mean	gerund	the Greeks not said here	water thief			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Topic
3	use	past	the Greeks not said here	clock			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Eventuality
4	give	to-infinitive	the Greeks not said here	each speaker	court	time	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speaker=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.

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:122-clocks-before-clocks.lesson:15.

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, 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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