Population and cities, sentence 6
For most of history nearly everyone lived on the land and a city of 100,000 was huge.
Who acts: everyone, city · What happens: live, be · To what, where: land
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 (everyone, city), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 most | case |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 lived | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 history | case |
| 4 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 most | nmod |
| 5 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 6 everyone | advmod |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 land | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 land | det |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 huge | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 city | det |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 huge | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 100,000 | case |
| 15 | 100,000 | 100000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 city | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 huge | cop |
| 17 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lived | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | everyone | the land | for most of history | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | a city of 100,000 | huge property | tree rules |
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:6.
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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