The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey, sentence 13
The Crab's story names the Perak river, Malacca and Singapore on the Malay Peninsula, by the Strait of Malacca, the short way for ships between the Indian Ocean and the seas of China, and one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
Who acts: story · What happens: name · To what, where: Perak river
This is a sentence of the lesson «The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey» 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 (story), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Crab | det |
| 2 | Crab | crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 story | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Crab | case |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 names | nsubj |
| 5 | names | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 7 | Perak | Perak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 river | compound |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 names | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Malacca | punct |
| 10 | Malacca | Malacca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 river | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Singapore | cc |
| 12 | Singapore | Singapore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 river | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 Peninsula | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Peninsula | det |
| 15 | Malay | Malay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Peninsula | compound |
| 16 | Peninsula | Peninsula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Singapore | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Strait | punct |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Strait | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Strait | det |
| 20 | Strait | Strait | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 names | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Malacca | case |
| 22 | Malacca | Malacca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Strait | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 way | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 way | det |
| 25 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 way | amod |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Strait | appos |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 ships | case |
| 28 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 way | nmod |
| 29 | between | between | ADP | _ | 32 Ocean | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Ocean | det |
| 31 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Ocean | amod |
| 32 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 ships | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 seas | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 seas | det |
| 35 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 Ocean | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 China | case |
| 37 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 seas | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 one | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 one | cc |
| 40 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 Strait | conj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 lanes | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 lanes | det |
| 43 | busiest | busy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 45 lanes | amod |
| 44 | shipping | shipping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 lanes | compound |
| 45 | lanes | lane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 one | nmod |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 world | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 world | det |
| 48 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 lanes | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 names | 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 | name | present | the Crab's story | the Perak river and Malacca and Singapore on the Malay Peninsula | by the Strait of Malacca | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=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:061-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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