--- title: Wednesday comes from "Woden's day", after the old Germanic god Woden… — Silent letters and the mystery of -ough · tree and pragmatics description: Wednesday comes from "Woden's day", after the old Germanic god Woden, the same god the Norse called Odin. Who acts: Wednesday, Norse. 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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 (Wednesday, Norse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:013-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough.lesson:12 # text = Wednesday comes from "Woden's day", after the old Germanic god Woden, the same god the Norse called Odin. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 013-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 Wednesday Wednesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 5 Woden Woden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 after after ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 Germanic Germanic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 14 god God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 15 Woden Woden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 god god NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Norse Norse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 Odin Odin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | Wednesday | | | | after the old Germanic god; day | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **call** | past | the Norse | the same god *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent god=Recipient | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:language:013-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough.lesson:12`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Silent letters and the mystery of -ough, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/13-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough/11/) - next →: [Silent letters and the mystery of -ough, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/13-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/13-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough/)