Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones, sentence 5

Pendulums can't keep time on rolling seas, so this was impossible until John Harrison, a carpenter born in Yorkshire, built sea clocks in the 1700s.

Who acts: Pendulums, this, John · What happens: not keep, roll, be, bear, build · To what, where: rolling seas, carpenter, Yorkshire, sea clocks, 1700s

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones» 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 (Pendulums, this, John), 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	Pendulums	pendulum	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 keep	advmod
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 seas	case
7	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 seas	amod
8	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 impossible	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 impossible	advmod
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 impossible	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 impossible	cop
13	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keep	parataxis
14	until	until	SCONJ	_	24 built	mark
15	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 built	nsubj
16	Harrison	Harrison	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 John	flat
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 carpenter	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 carpenter	det
19	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 John	appos
20	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 carpenter	acl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 Yorkshire	case
22	Yorkshire	Yorkshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 born	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 clocks	punct
24	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 impossible	advcl
25	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 clocks	compound
26	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 built	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 1700s	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 1700s	det
29	1700s	1700	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	24 built	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not keep	can	Pendulums		rolling seas	time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on sea=Location
2	roll	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	this				impossible property	tree rules
4	bear	participle		a carpenter not said here	Yorkshire			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	build	past	John	sea clocks	the 1700s			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Product

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:123-pendulums-greenwich-atomic-clocks.lesson:5.

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, 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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