Winds, monsoons and ocean currents, sentence 14

Arab, Persian, Indian and Chinese sailors timed their voyages across the Indian Ocean to the monsoon, often waiting months in port for the wind to turn.

Who acts: Arab sailors, sailors · What happens: time, wait, turn, voyage · To what, where: voyages, Indian Ocean, port

This is a sentence of the lesson «Winds, monsoons and ocean currents» 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 (Arab sailors, sailors), 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	Arab	Arab	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sailors	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Persian	punct
3	Persian	Persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Arab	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Indian	punct
5	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Arab	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Chinese	cc
7	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Arab	conj
8	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 timed	nsubj
9	timed	time	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 voyages	nmod:poss
11	voyages	voyage	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 timed	obj
12	across	across	ADP	_	15 Ocean	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Ocean	det
14	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Ocean	amod
15	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 voyages	nmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 monsoon	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 monsoon	det
18	monsoon	monsoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 timed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 waiting	punct
20	often	often	ADV	_	21 waiting	advmod
21	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 timed	advcl
22	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 waiting	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 port	case
24	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 waiting	obl
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 wind	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wind	det
27	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 waiting	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 turn	mark
29	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 waiting	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 timed	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	time	past	Arab sailors	sailors's voyages	the Indian Ocean		to the monsoon	vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Theme
2	wait	gerund	Arab sailors not said here		port	month	for the wind; often property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in port=Location
3	turn	to-infinitive	Arab sailors not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	voyage		sailors = sailor		the Indian Ocean			nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent across=place

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:022-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents.lesson:14.

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): R5-strong ×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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/14/