Languages and peoples on the map, sentence 13
Arabic spread from Arabia across the Middle East and North Africa, as far as Egypt and Morocco, after the 600s, while Turkic languages spread from Central Asia west to Anatolia.
Who acts: Arabic, Turkic languages · What happens: spread · To what, where: Arabia, Anatolia, Central Asia
This is a sentence of the lesson «Languages and peoples on the map» 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 (Arabic, Turkic languages), 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 | Arabic | Arabic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spread | nsubj |
| 2 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Arabia | case |
| 4 | Arabia | Arabia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spread | obl |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 East | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 East | det |
| 7 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 East | compound |
| 8 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spread | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Africa | cc |
| 10 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Africa | compound |
| 11 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 East | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 far | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 far | advmod |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 spread | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Egypt | case |
| 16 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 far | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Morocco | cc |
| 18 | Morocco | Morocco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Egypt | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 600s | punct |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 600s | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 600s | det |
| 22 | 600s | 600 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 2 spread | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 languages | punct |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 spread | mark |
| 25 | Turkic | turkic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 languages | amod |
| 26 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 spread | nsubj |
| 27 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spread | advcl |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 Asia | case |
| 29 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Asia | compound |
| 30 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 spread | obl |
| 31 | west | west | ADV | _ | 27 spread | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Anatolia | case |
| 33 | Anatolia | Anatolia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 spread | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | Arabic | Arabia | after the 600s | across the Middle East and North Africa; far property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across east=Destination | ||
| 2 | spread | past | Turkic languages | Anatolia | Central Asia | west property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:025-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map.lesson:13.
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. 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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