The Middle East and Central Asia, sentence 11
Iran, long called Persia in Europe, has had several capitals over the centuries, such as Tabriz and Isfahan, and today its capital is Tehran, a city of about 9 million people at the foot of the Alborz Mountains.
Who acts: Iran · What happens: call, have, be · To what, where: Iran, Europe, several capitals, Tehran · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Middle East and Central Asia» 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 (Iran), 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 | Iran | Iran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 had | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Iran | punct |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 called | advmod |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Iran | acl |
| 5 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Europe | case |
| 7 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Europe | punct |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | aux |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 capitals | amod |
| 12 | capitals | capital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 centuries | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 centuries | det |
| 15 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Tabriz | punct |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 19 Tabriz | case |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 such | fixed |
| 19 | Tabriz | Tabriz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 capitals | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Isfahan | cc |
| 21 | Isfahan | Isfahan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Tabriz | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Tehran | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Tehran | cc |
| 24 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Tehran | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 capital | nmod:poss |
| 26 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 today | nmod |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 Tehran | cop |
| 28 | Tehran | Tehran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 had | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 city | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 city | det |
| 31 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Tehran | appos |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 people | case |
| 33 | about | about | ADV | _ | 35 million | advmod |
| 34 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 million | compound |
| 35 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 people | nummod |
| 36 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 city | nmod |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 foot | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 foot | det |
| 39 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 city | nmod |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Mountains | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Mountains | det |
| 42 | Alborz | Alborz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Mountains | compound |
| 43 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 39 foot | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | Iran not said here | Europe | long property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | have | present · perfect | Iran | several capitals | century | such Tabriz and Isfahan | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Patient | ||
| 3 | is a | present | Iran not said here | Tehran | today | 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, 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:012-middle-east-and-central-asia.lesson:11.
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): R5-strong ×2. 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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