The Middle East and Central Asia, sentence 9
Turkey's capital is Ankara, chosen by the new republic in 1923 because it lies in the middle of the country, away from the old sultans' court, but its largest city is Istanbul, which spans Europe and Asia on both sides of the Bosporus.
Who acts: capital, largest city, Istanbul · What happens: be, choose, lie, span · To what, where: Ankara, 1923, middle, Istanbul, Europe, sides
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, largest city, Istanbul), 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 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 capital | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Turkey | case |
| 3 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Ankara | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Ankara | cop |
| 5 | Ankara | Ankara | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chosen | punct |
| 7 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Ankara | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 republic | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 republic | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 republic | amod |
| 11 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chosen | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1923 | case |
| 13 | 1923 | 1923 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 chosen | obl |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 lies | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lies | nsubj |
| 16 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 chosen | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 middle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 middle | det |
| 19 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lies | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 country | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 country | det |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 middle | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 away | punct |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 chosen | advmod |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 court | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sultans | det |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sultans | amod |
| 28 | sultans | sultan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 court | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 28 sultans | case |
| 30 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 away | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Istanbul | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 Istanbul | cc |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 city | nmod:poss |
| 34 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 city | amod |
| 35 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Istanbul | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 Istanbul | cop |
| 37 | Istanbul | Istanbul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ankara | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 spans | punct |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 spans | nsubj |
| 40 | spans | span | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 Istanbul | acl:relcl |
| 41 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 spans | obj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 Asia | cc |
| 43 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Europe | conj |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 sides | case |
| 45 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 46 sides | det |
| 46 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 spans | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 Bosporus | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Bosporus | det |
| 49 | Bosporus | bosporus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sides | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ankara | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Turkey's capital | Ankara but Istanbul | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | choose | participle | Ankara but Istanbul not said here | 1923 | by the new republic; away property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | lie | present | capital | the middle of the country | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | capital's largest city | Istanbul | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | span | present | Istanbul | Europe and Asia | both sides of the Bosporus | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme europe=Co-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:012-middle-east-and-central-asia.lesson:9.
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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