The great rivers, sentence 7
The Amazon flows through rainforest, where heavy rain falls nearly all year, and carries about a fifth of all the river water that flows into the world's oceans, more than the next several largest rivers together.
Who acts: Amazon, heavy rain, river water · What happens: flow, fall, carry · To what, where: rainforest, fifth, oceans
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 (Amazon, heavy rain, river water), 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 | 2 Amazon | det |
| 2 | Amazon | Amazon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 flows | nsubj |
| 3 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 rainforest | case |
| 5 | rainforest | rainforest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flows | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 falls | punct |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 falls | advmod |
| 8 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rain | amod |
| 9 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 falls | nsubj |
| 10 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rainforest | acl:relcl |
| 11 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 10 falls | advmod |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 year | det |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 falls | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 carries | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 carries | cc |
| 16 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 flows | conj |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 fifth | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fifth | det |
| 19 | fifth | fifth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carries | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 water | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 23 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 water | compound |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fifth | nmod |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 flows | nsubj |
| 26 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 water | acl:relcl |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 oceans | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 oceans | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 world | case |
| 31 | oceans | ocean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 flows | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 more | punct |
| 33 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 carries | advmod |
| 34 | than | than | ADP | _ | 39 rivers | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 rivers | det |
| 36 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 rivers | amod |
| 37 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 rivers | amod |
| 38 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 rivers | amod |
| 39 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 more | obl |
| 40 | together | together | ADV | _ | 39 rivers | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | present | the Amazon | rainforest | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through rainforest=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall | present | heavy rain | year | nearly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | carry | present | the Amazon not said here | a fifth of all river water | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifth=Theme | ||||
| 4 | flow | present | all river water | the world's oceans | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:016-the-great-rivers.lesson:7.
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 ×1, R8-pos-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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