Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago, sentence 14
Johannes Gutenberg began printing books with movable metal letters around 1450.
Who acts: Johannes · What happens: begin, print · To what, where: books, 1450
This is a sentence of the lesson «Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago» 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 (Johannes), 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 | Johannes | Johannes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 2 | Gutenberg | Gutenberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Johannes | flat |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | printing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 began | xcomp | |
| 5 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 printing | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 letters | case |
| 7 | movable | movable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 metal | amod |
| 8 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 letters | compound |
| 9 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 printing | obl |
| 10 | around | around | ADP | _ | 11 1450 | case |
| 11 | 1450 | 1450 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 printing | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Johannes | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | gerund | Johannes not said here | books | 1450 | with metal letters | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=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:048-time-and-history.lesson:14.
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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