The Arctic and Antarctica, sentence 17
For centuries Europeans searched for a sea route north of Canada to Asia; Sir John Franklin's expedition of 1845 vanished with all 129 men, and Roald Amundsen first sailed the Northwest Passage between 1903 and 1906.
Who acts: Europeans, expedition, Roald · What happens: search, vanish, sail · To what, where: sea route, Northwest Passage
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic and Antarctica» 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 (Europeans, expedition, Roald), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 centuries | case |
| 2 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 searched | obl |
| 3 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 searched | nsubj |
| 4 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 north | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 route | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 route | compound |
| 8 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 searched | obl |
| 9 | north | north | ADV | _ | 8 route | advmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Canada | case |
| 11 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 north | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Asia | case |
| 13 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Canada | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 expedition | punct |
| 15 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Franklin | flat |
| 16 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Franklin | flat |
| 17 | Franklin | Franklin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 expedition | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Franklin | case |
| 19 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 vanished | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 1845 | case |
| 21 | 1845 | 1845 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 expedition | nmod |
| 22 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 searched | parataxis |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 men | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 men | det |
| 25 | 129 | 129 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 men | nummod |
| 26 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 vanished | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sailed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Roald | cc |
| 29 | Roald | Roald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 sailed | nsubj |
| 30 | Amundsen | Amundsen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Roald | flat |
| 31 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 32 sailed | advmod |
| 32 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 vanished | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Passage | det |
| 34 | Northwest | Northwest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Passage | compound |
| 35 | Passage | Passage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 sailed | obj |
| 36 | between | between | ADP | _ | 37 1903 | case |
| 37 | 1903 | 1903 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 sailed | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 1906 | cc |
| 39 | 1906 | 1906 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 1903 | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past | Europeans | a sea route | century | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | vanish | past | Sir John Franklin's expedition of 1845 | with all 129 men | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sail | past | Roald | the Northwest Passage | between 1903; first property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=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:015-the-arctic-and-antarctica.lesson:17.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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