Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 8
The Bosporus joins the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, is less than 1 km wide at its narrowest, and divides Istanbul between Europe and Asia.
Who acts: Bosporus · What happens: join, be, divide · To what, where: Black Sea, Istanbul
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 (Bosporus), 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 Bosporus | det |
| 2 | Bosporus | Bosporus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 joins | nsubj |
| 3 | joins | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sea | det |
| 5 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sea | flat |
| 6 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 joins | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sea | det |
| 9 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 joins | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Marmara | case |
| 11 | Marmara | Marmara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sea | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 less | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 less | cop |
| 14 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 joins | conj |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 km | case |
| 16 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 km | nummod |
| 17 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 less | obl |
| 18 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 km | amod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 narrowest | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 narrowest | nmod:poss |
| 21 | narrowest | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 wide | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 divides | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 divides | cc |
| 24 | divides | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 joins | conj |
| 25 | Istanbul | Istanbul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 divides | obj |
| 26 | between | between | ADP | _ | 27 Europe | case |
| 27 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 divides | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Asia | cc |
| 29 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Europe | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 joins | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | present | the Bosporus | the Black Sea | to the Sea of Marmara | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sea=Patient to sea=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | the Bosporus not said here | than 1 km; less property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | divide | present | the Bosporus not said here | Istanbul | between Europe and Asia | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent istanbul=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:019-straits-the-narrow-doors.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): no change. 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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