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Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, sentence 20

The Erie Canal, opened in 1825, linked the Great Lakes to the Hudson River, helping New York become the leading port of the United States.

Who acts: Erie Canal, New York · What happens: open, link, help, become, lead · To what, where: Erie Canal, 1825, Great Lakes, New York, leading port

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 (Erie Canal, New York), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

detcompoundnsubjpunctaclcaseoblpunctdetamodobjcasedetcompoundoblpunctadvclcompoundobjxcompdetamodxcompcasedetcompoundnmodpunctrootTheDETEriePROPNCanalPROPN,PUNCTopenedVERBinADP1825NUM,PUNCTlinkedVERBtheDETGreatADJLakesPROPNtoADPtheDETHudsonPROPNRiverPROPN,PUNCThelpingVERBNewPROPNYorkPROPNbecomeVERBtheDETleadingVERBportNOUNofADPtheDETUnitedPROPNStatesPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Canaldet
2ErieEriePROPNNumber=Sing3 Canalcompound
3CanalCanalPROPNNumber=Sing9 linkednsubj
4,,PUNCT_3 Canalpunct
5openedopenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 Canalacl
6ininADP_7 1825case
718251825NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card5 openedobl
8,,PUNCT_9 linkedpunct
9linkedlinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 Lakesdet
11GreatgreatADJDegree=Pos12 Lakesamod
12LakeslakePROPNNumber=Plur9 linkedobj
13totoADP_16 Rivercase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 Riverdet
15HudsonHudsonPROPNNumber=Sing16 Rivercompound
16RiverRiverPROPNNumber=Sing9 linkedobl
17,,PUNCT_18 helpingpunct
18helpinghelpVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 linkedadvcl
19NewNewPROPN_20 Yorkcompound
20YorkYorkPROPNNumber=Sing18 helpingobj
21becomebecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf18 helpingxcomp
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 portdet
23leadingleadVERBVerbForm=Ger24 portamod
24portportNOUNNumber=Sing21 becomexcomp
25ofofADP_28 Statescase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 Statesdet
27UnitedUnitedPROPN_28 Statescompound
28StatesStatePROPNNumber=Plur24 portnmod
29..PUNCT_9 linkedpunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1openparticiplethe Erie Canal not said here1825vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1825=Location
2linkpastthe Erie Canalthe Great Lakesto the Hudson Rivervn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent lake=Patient to river=Co-Patient
3helpgerundthe Erie Canal not said hereNew Yorkvn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent york=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4becomeinfinitiveNew York not said herethe leading port of the United Statesvn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5leadgerundvn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition

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:20.

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 ×2. 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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