The great rivers, sentence 16
China's Yellow River is named after the yellow-brown loess silt it carries, and that silt builds up in its bed, raising the river so it has changed its course many times, causing some of the deadliest floods in history.
Who acts: Rhine, silt · What happens: name, carry, build up, raise, change, cause · To what, where: Yellow River, brown loess silt, bed, river, course, some
This is a sentence of the lesson «The great rivers» 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 (Rhine, silt), 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 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 River | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 China | case |
| 3 | Yellow | Yellow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 River | compound |
| 4 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 named | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 named | aux:pass |
| 6 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 silt | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 silt | det |
| 9 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brown | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 yellow | punct |
| 11 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 silt | amod |
| 12 | loess | loess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 silt | compound |
| 13 | silt | silt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 named | obl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 carries | nsubj |
| 15 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 silt | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 builds | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 builds | cc |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 silt | det |
| 19 | silt | silt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 builds | nsubj |
| 20 | builds | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 named | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 builds | compound:prt |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 bed | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bed | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 builds | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 raising | punct |
| 26 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 builds | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 river | det |
| 28 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 raising | obj |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 changed | advmod |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 changed | nsubj |
| 31 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 changed | aux |
| 32 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 named | conj |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 course | nmod:poss |
| 34 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 changed | obj |
| 35 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 times | amod |
| 36 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 changed | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 causing | punct |
| 38 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 changed | advcl |
| 39 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 causing | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 floods | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 floods | det |
| 42 | deadliest | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 43 floods | amod |
| 43 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 some | nmod |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 history | case |
| 45 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 floods | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 named | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | present · passive | China's Yellow River | after the brown loess silt | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | Rhine | the brown loess silt not said here | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silt=Theme | ||||
| 3 | build up | present | that silt | Rhine's bed | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | raise | gerund | that silt not said here | the river | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Theme | ||||
| 5 | change | present · perfect | Rhine | Rhine's course | time | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Patient | |||
| 6 | cause | gerund | Rhine not said here | some | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition some=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:016-the-great-rivers.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): 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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