Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses, sentence 23

The clock at Salisbury Cathedral, built around 1386, is one of the oldest working clocks in the world; it has no face and just strikes the hours.

Who acts: clock · What happens: build, be, work, have, strike · To what, where: clock, 1386, one, face

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 (clock), 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 clock	det
2	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 one	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 Cathedral	case
4	Salisbury	Salisbury	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Cathedral	compound
5	Cathedral	Cathedral	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 clock	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 built	punct
7	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 clock	acl
8	around	around	ADP	_	9 1386	case
9	1386	1386	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 built	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 clock	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 one	cop
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 clocks	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 clocks	det
15	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 clocks	amod
16	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 clocks	amod
17	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 clocks	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 has	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 has	nsubj
23	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 one	parataxis
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 face	det
25	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 has	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 strikes	cc
27	just	just	ADV	_	28 strikes	advmod
28	strikes	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 has	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hours	det
30	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 strikes	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	participle		the clock at Salisbury Cathedral not said here	1386			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is a	present	the clock at Salisbury Cathedral	one			of the oldest working clocks in the world	tree rules
3	work	gerund						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	present	clock	no face				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
5	strike	present	clock not said here			hour		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: 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:23.

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 ×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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