Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew, sentence 6
Russia expanded east across Siberia from the 1580s and reached the Pacific coast by the 1640s, largely in search of furs.
Who acts: Russia · What happens: expand, reach, search · To what, where: Siberia, Pacific coast, search, furs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew» 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 (Russia), 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 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 expanded | nsubj |
| 2 | expanded | expand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | east | east | ADV | _ | 2 expanded | advmod |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 5 Siberia | case |
| 5 | Siberia | Siberia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 expanded | obl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 1580s | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 1580s | det |
| 8 | 1580s | 1580 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 2 expanded | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 reached | cc |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 expanded | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 coast | det |
| 12 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 coast | compound |
| 13 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 1640s | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 1640s | det |
| 16 | 1640s | 1640 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 10 reached | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 search | punct |
| 18 | largely | largely | ADV | _ | 20 search | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 search | case |
| 20 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 furs | case |
| 22 | furs | fur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 search | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 expanded | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expand | past | Russia | Siberia | from the 1580s; east property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | reach | past | Russia not said here | the Pacific coast | search of furs | by the 1640s | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent coast=Theme | ||
| 3 | search | furs | nom search «act transitive»: of=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:034-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew.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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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