The Middle East and Central Asia, sentence 8
The Middle East usually means the lands from Egypt and Turkey to Iran and the Arabian Peninsula, and the name comes from a European view of the world.
Who acts: Middle East, name · What happens: mean, come, view · To what, where: lands, Egypt, European view, world
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 (Middle East, name), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 East | det |
| 2 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 East | compound |
| 3 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 means | advmod |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lands | det |
| 7 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Egypt | case |
| 9 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lands | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Turkey | cc |
| 11 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Egypt | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Iran | case |
| 13 | Iran | Iran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lands | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Peninsula | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Peninsula | det |
| 16 | Arabian | Arabian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Peninsula | amod |
| 17 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Iran | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 comes | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 comes | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 name | det |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 comes | nsubj |
| 22 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 view | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 view | det |
| 25 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 view | amod |
| 26 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 comes | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 view | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | the Middle East | the lands | Egypt and Turkey | to Iran and the Arabian Peninsula; usually property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot land=Theme to iran=Attribute | ||
| 2 | come | present | the name | a European view of the world | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from view=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | view | the world | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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:8.
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): no change. 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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