The great rivers, sentence 8

The White Nile and the Blue Nile meet at Khartoum in Sudan, and the Blue Nile from Ethiopia brings most of the water and the rich silt that once flooded Egypt every year.

Who acts: White Nile, Blue Nile, rich silt · What happens: meet, bring, flood · To what, where: Khartoum, most, Egypt

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 (White Nile, Blue Nile, rich 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Nile	det
2	White	White	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Nile	amod
3	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 meet	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Nile	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Nile	det
6	Blue	Blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Nile	amod
7	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Nile	conj
8	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 Khartoum	case
10	Khartoum	Khartoum	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 meet	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Sudan	case
12	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 meet	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 brings	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 brings	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Nile	det
16	Blue	Blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Nile	amod
17	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 brings	nsubj
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 Ethiopia	case
19	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Nile	nmod
20	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 meet	conj
21	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 brings	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 water	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 water	det
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 most	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 silt	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 silt	det
27	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 silt	amod
28	silt	silt	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 water	conj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 flooded	nsubj
30	once	once	ADV	_	31 flooded	advmod
31	flooded	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 silt	acl:relcl
32	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 flooded	obj
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	34 year	det
34	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flooded	obl:unmarked
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 meet	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present	the White Nile and the Blue Nile		Khartoum		in Sudan	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring	present	the Blue Nile from Ethiopia	most of the water and the rich silt				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent most=Theme
3	flood	past	the rich silt	Egypt		year	once property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent egypt=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: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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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