The Middle East and Central Asia, sentence 16

Syria's capital is Damascus, one of the oldest cities in the world that has been lived in without a break, while Lebanon's capital is Beirut and Jordan's is Amman.

Who acts: capital · What happens: be, live · To what, where: Damascus, oldest cities, break, Beirut, Amman

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 (capital), 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	Syria	Syria	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 capital	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Syria	case
3	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Damascus	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Damascus	cop
5	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 Damascus	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 cities	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cities	det
10	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 cities	amod
11	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cities	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 lived	nsubj:pass
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 lived	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 lived	aux:pass
18	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 cities	acl:relcl
19	in	in	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	22 break	case
20	without	without	ADP	_	19 in	fixed
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 break	det
22	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lived	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Beirut	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 Beirut	mark
25	Lebanon	Lebanon	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 capital	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 Lebanon	case
27	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Beirut	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 Beirut	cop
29	Beirut	Beirut	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Damascus	advcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Jordan	cc
31	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Beirut	conj
32	's	's	PART	_	31 Jordan	case
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 Amman	cop
34	Amman	Amman	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Beirut	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 Damascus	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	Syria's capital	Damascus		tree rules
2	live	present · perfect · passive		the oldest cities in the world	a break	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location
3	is a	present	Lebanon's capital	Beirut and Jordan and Amman		tree rules
4	is a	present	Lebanon's capital not said here	Amman		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:16.

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. 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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