Population and cities, sentence 1

In 1337, the year Europa Universalis 5 begins, the queue was perhaps only about 400 million long, fewer people than India alone has now.

Who acts: year Europa, queue · What happens: begin, be, have · To what, where: 1337

This is a sentence of the lesson «Population and cities» 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 (year Europa, queue), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 1337	case
2	1337	1337	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 long	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 1337	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Europa	compound
6	Europa	europa	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 begins	nsubj
7	Universalis	Universalis	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Europa	appos
8	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 Universalis	flat
9	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 long	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 begins	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 queue	det
12	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 long	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 long	cop
14	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	19 long	advmod
15	only	only	ADV	_	18 million	advmod
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 400	advmod
17	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 million	compound
18	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 long	obl:unmarked
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 people	punct
21	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 people	amod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 long	parataxis
23	than	than	ADP	_	24 India	case
24	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 people	nmod
25	alone	alone	ADV	_	24 India	advmod
26	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 long	advcl
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 has	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 long	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	present	year Europa				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	past	the queue	1337		400 million obl:unmarked; long, perhaps property	tree rules
3	have	present	the queue not said here		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:024-population-and-cities.lesson:1.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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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