Maps and scale, sentence 15
From the late 1200s, sailors in the Mediterranean used portolan charts, sea maps with coastlines and criss-crossing compass lines.
Who acts: sailors · What happens: use, criss, cross · To what, where: portolan charts, late 1200s, crossing compass lines
This is a sentence of the lesson «Maps and scale» of the geography 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 (sailors), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 1200s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 1200s | det |
| 3 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 1200s | amod |
| 4 | 1200s | 1200 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 10 used | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 1200s | punct |
| 6 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 used | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Mediterranean | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Mediterranean | det |
| 9 | Mediterranean | Mediterranean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sailors | nmod |
| 10 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | portolan | portolan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 charts | compound |
| 12 | charts | chart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 used | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 maps | punct |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 maps | compound |
| 15 | maps | map | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 charts | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 coastlines | case |
| 17 | coastlines | coastline | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 maps | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 criss | cc |
| 19 | criss | criss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 coastlines | conj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 criss | punct |
| 21 | crossing | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 lines | amod |
| 22 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lines | compound |
| 23 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 criss | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 used | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | sailors in the Mediterranean | portolan charts and sea maps with coastlines | the late 1200s | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chart=Patient | |||
| 2 | criss | infinitive | sailors in the Mediterranean not said here | crossing compass lines | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cross | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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:geography:001-maps-and-scale.lesson:15.
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): R7-rel-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.
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