Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses, sentence 8

Sailors turned a half-hour glass and rang the ship's bell each time, and eight bells ended a 4-hour watch (a sailor's turn on duty).

Who acts: Sailors, eight bells · What happens: turn, ring, end · To what, where: hour glass, bell, hour watch

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 (Sailors, eight bells), 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	Sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 glass	det
4	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 hour	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 half	punct
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 glass	compound
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rang	cc
9	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ship	det
11	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bell	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 ship	case
13	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rang	obj
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rang	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ended	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ended	cc
18	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 bells	nummod
19	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ended	nsubj
20	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 watch	det
22	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 hour	nummod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 4	punct
24	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 watch	compound
25	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ended	obj
26	(	(	PUNCT	_	30 turn	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 sailor	det
28	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turn	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 sailor	case
30	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 watch	appos
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 duty	case
32	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turn	nmod
33	)	)	PUNCT	_	30 turn	punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	turn	past	Sailors	a hour glass		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent glass=Theme
2	ring	past	Sailors not said here	the ship's bell	time	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme
3	end	past	eight bells	a hour watch		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality watch=Eventuality

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:8.

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): no change. 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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