Earthquakes, sentence 10
In 1755 an earthquake, a tsunami and fires destroyed much of Lisbon, killing tens of thousands of people.
Who acts: earthquake · What happens: destroy, kill · To what, where: much, tens
This is a sentence of the lesson «Earthquakes» 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 (earthquake), 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 | In | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 earthquake | case |
| 2 | 1755 | 1755 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 In | fixed |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 earthquake | det |
| 4 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 destroyed | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 earthquake | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tsunami | det |
| 7 | tsunami | tsunami | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 destroyed | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fires | cc |
| 9 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tsunami | conj |
| 10 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 destroyed | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Lisbon | case |
| 13 | Lisbon | Lisbon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 much | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 killing | punct |
| 15 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 destroyed | advcl |
| 16 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 killing | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 thousands | case |
| 18 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 tens | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 people | case |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 thousands | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 destroyed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | past | a earthquake | much of Lisbon | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 2 | kill | gerund | a earthquake not said here | tens of thousands of people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=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:044-earthquakes.lesson:10.
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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