Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, sentence 11

The Suez Canal was dug largely by Egyptian workers, tens of thousands of them forced labourers, and many died from disease and hard conditions.

Who acts: Egyptian workers, many · What happens: dig, force, die · To what, where: Suez Canal, disease

This is a sentence of the lesson «Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts» 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 (Egyptian workers, many), 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 Canal	det
2	Suez	Suez	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Canal	compound
3	Canal	Canal	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dug	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dug	aux:pass
5	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	largely	largely	ADV	_	5 dug	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 workers	case
8	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 workers	amod
9	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dug	obl:agent
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tens	punct
11	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 workers	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 thousands	case
13	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tens	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thousands	nmod
16	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 labourers	amod
17	labourers	labourer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 workers	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 died	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 died	cc
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 died	nsubj
21	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dug	conj
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 disease	case
23	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 died	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 conditions	cc
25	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 conditions	amod
26	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 disease	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dug	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dig	past · passive	Egyptian workers and tens of thousands of thousands	the Suez Canal		largely property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument
2	force	participle					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	die	past	many		disease and hard conditions		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from disease=Causer

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:020-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts.lesson:11.

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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