--- title: Paul Revere's ride was meant to be secret, and the colonists (people… — Ancient times and famous stories · tree and pragmatics description: Paul Revere's ride was meant to be secret, and the colonists (people living in Britain's lands in America) then thought of themselves as British; he is reported to have warned that "the Regulars are coming out", meaning the British army soldiers. Who acts: people, colonists, Regulars, Paul. 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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 (people, colonists, Regulars, Paul), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson:14 # text = Paul Revere's ride was meant to be secret, and the colonists (people living in Britain's lands in America) then thought of themselves as British; he is reported to have warned that "the Regulars are coming out", meaning the British army soldiers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Paul Paul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 Revere Revere PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 4 ride ride NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 meant mean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 9 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 colonists colonist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 16 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 25 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 25 obl _ _ 28 as as ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 obl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 34 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 35 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux _ _ 36 warned warn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 xcomp _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Regulars regular PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=42:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 41 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 ccomp _ _ 43 out out ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 meaning mean VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 advcl _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 48 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 49 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | past · passive | | Paul's ride | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | secret *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | Britain's lands in America | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the colonists | | | | then | of people; as British | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **report** | present · passive | | ride | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive · perfect | | | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **come out** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the Regulars | | | | | | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **mean** | gerund | the Regulars *not said here* | the British army soldiers | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Topic | | 9 | **ride** | | Paul | | | | | | nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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: [Ancient times and famous stories, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories/13/) - next →: [Ancient times and famous stories, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories/)