Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses, sentence 16

Candle clocks had hour marks down the side; King Alfred's candles are said to have burned 4 hours each, so 6 candles lasted a whole day.

Who acts: Candle clocks, 6 candles · What happens: have, say, burn, last · To what, where: hour marks, candles · 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 (Candle clocks, 6 candles), 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	Candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clocks	compound
2	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marks	compound
5	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	8 side	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 side	det
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 candles	nmod:poss
11	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 King	flat
12	's	's	PART	_	10 King	case
13	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 said	nsubj:pass
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	aux:pass
15	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	18 burned	mark
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 burned	aux
18	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 said	xcomp
19	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 hours	nummod
20	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 burned	obl
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 burned	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lasted	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 lasted	advmod
24	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 candles	nummod
25	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lasted	nsubj
26	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 day	det
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 day	amod
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lasted	obl:unmarked
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Candle clocks	hour marks		down the side	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present · passive		King's candles			tree rules
3	burn	to-infinitive · perfect			hour		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	last	past	6 candles		day		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:16.

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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