Population and cities, sentence 15

The largest cities of the 1300s, such as Constantinople, Paris or Hangzhou, had a few hundred thousand people at most.

Who acts: largest cities · What happens: have · To what, where: few thousand people, most

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 (largest cities), 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 cities	det
2	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 cities	amod
3	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 1300s	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 1300s	det
6	1300s	1300	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	3 cities	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Constantinople	punct
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	10 Constantinople	case
9	as	as	ADP	_	8 such	fixed
10	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 1300s	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Paris	punct
12	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Constantinople	conj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 Hangzhou	cc
14	Hangzhou	Hangzhou	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Paris	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 1300s	punct
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 people	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 people	amod
19	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 thousand	compound
20	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 people	nummod
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	obj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 most	case
23	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 people	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the largest cities of the 1300s and Constantinople and Paris or Hangzhou	a few thousand people		most			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

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:15.

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.

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