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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dawn, birds, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:050-willows-ch7-part2-the-piper.lesson:16 # text = As dawn comes, «no birds sang as they were wont to do» (wont = used to), and «all was marvellously still». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 050-willows-ch7-part2-the-piper.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 wont wont ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 17 wont wont NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 parataxis _ _ 18 = = PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 19 obl _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 25 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 28 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 marvellously marvellously ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 still still ADV RB _ 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | dawn | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | no birds | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | birds *= bird* | | | | | wont *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | birds *= bird* *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **use** | participle | | wont *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | past | all | | | | | marvellously, still *property* | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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