Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew, sentence 9
Peter the Great built St Petersburg on the Baltic coast from 1703 and made it Russia's capital, giving Russia a sea port facing western Europe; many forced labourers died building it on marshy land.
Who acts: Peter, sea port, many forced labourers · What happens: build, make, give, face, force, die · To what, where: Petersburg, Baltic coast, Peter, sea port, Russia, western Europe
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 (Peter, sea port, many forced labourers), 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 built | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 1 Peter | det |
| 3 | Great | great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Peter | flat |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Petersburg | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Petersburg | Petersburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 coast | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 coast | det |
| 9 | Baltic | baltic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 coast | amod |
| 10 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 1703 | case |
| 12 | 1703 | 1703 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 coast | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 capital | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Russia | case |
| 18 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 giving | punct |
| 20 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 made | advcl |
| 21 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 giving | iobj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 port | det |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 port | compound |
| 24 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 giving | obj |
| 25 | facing | face | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 port | acl |
| 26 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Europe | amod |
| 27 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 facing | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 died | punct |
| 29 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 labourers | amod |
| 30 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 labourers | amod |
| 31 | labourers | labourer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 died | nsubj |
| 32 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | conj |
| 33 | building | build | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 died | xcomp |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 building | obj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 land | case |
| 36 | marshy | marshy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 land | amod |
| 37 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 building | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | 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 | build | past | the Peter | Petersburg St | the Baltic coast from 1703 | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent petersburg=Theme on coast=Source | |||
| 2 | make | past | the Peter not said here | Peter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ||||
| 3 | give | gerund | the Peter not said here | a sea port | Russia | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent russia=Recipient port=Theme | |||
| 4 | face | gerund | a sea port not said here | western Europe | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme europe=Destination | ||||
| 5 | force | participle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | die | past | many forced labourers | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | build | gerund | many forced labourers not said here | Peter | marshy land | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme on land=Source |
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:9.
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 ×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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