Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 16

From 1429 to 1857 Denmark charged a toll, called the Sound Dues, on every foreign ship passing through the Øresund strait between Denmark and Sweden.

Who acts: Denmark, foreign ship · What happens: charge, call, pass · To what, where: toll, 1429, Øresund strait · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors» 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 (Denmark, foreign ship), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 1429	case
2	1429	1429	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 charged	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 1857	case
4	1857	1857	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 1429	nmod
5	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 charged	nsubj
6	charged	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 toll	det
8	toll	toll	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 charged	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 called	punct
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 toll	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Dues	det
12	Sound	Sound	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Dues	compound
13	Dues	due	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 called	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ship	punct
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 ship	case
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 ship	det
17	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ship	amod
18	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 charged	obl
19	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 ship	acl
20	through	through	ADP	_	23 strait	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 strait	det
22	Øresund	Øresund	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 strait	compound
23	strait	strait	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 passing	obl
24	between	between	ADP	_	25 Denmark	case
25	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 strait	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Sweden	cc
27	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Denmark	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 charged	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	charge	past	Denmark	a toll	1429 to 1857	on every foreign ship	tree rules
2	call	participle		a toll not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pass	gerund	every foreign ship not said here		the Øresund strait between Denmark and Sweden		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through strait=Location

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:019-straits-the-narrow-doors.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): 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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