The great rivers, sentence 9
The Aswan High Dam, finished in 1970, stopped the Nile's yearly flood, giving steady water and electricity but holding back the silt.
Who acts: Aswan High Dam, Nile · What happens: finish, stop, give, hold back, flood · To what, where: Aswan High Dam, 1970, yearly flood, steady water, silt
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 (Aswan High Dam, Nile), 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 | 4 Dam | det |
| 2 | Aswan | Aswan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Dam | compound |
| 3 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Dam | amod |
| 4 | Dam | dam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 stopped | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 finished | punct |
| 6 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Dam | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1970 | case |
| 8 | 1970 | 1970 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 finished | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Dam | punct |
| 10 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Nile | det |
| 12 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 flood | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Nile | case |
| 14 | yearly | yearly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 flood | amod |
| 15 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stopped | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 giving | punct |
| 17 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 stopped | advcl |
| 18 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 water | amod |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 giving | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 electricity | cc |
| 21 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 water | conj |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 holding | cc |
| 23 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 giving | conj |
| 24 | back | back | ADP | _ | 23 holding | compound:prt |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 silt | det |
| 26 | silt | silt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 holding | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | participle | the Aswan High Dam not said here | 1970 | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | the Aswan High Dam | the Nile's yearly flood | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector flood=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | give | gerund | the Aswan High Dam not said here | steady water and electricity | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold back | gerund | the Aswan High Dam not said here | the silt | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silt=Theme | ||||
| 5 | flood | the Nile | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |
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: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): R7-rel-agree ×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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