The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey, sentence 16
The Everglades in Florida are a very wide, slow river of grass over flat land; Suleiman-bin-Daoud's story takes place in an imagined palace, and the real Queen of Sheba's land, Saba, was probably in Yemen.
Who acts: Everglades, story, real Queen · What happens: be, take, imagine · To what, where: wide slow river, flat land, place, imagined palace, Yemen
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 (Everglades, story, real Queen), 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 Everglades | det |
| 2 | Everglades | Everglades | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 river | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Florida | case |
| 4 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Everglades | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 river | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 wide | advmod |
| 8 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 river | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wide | punct |
| 10 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 river | amod |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 grass | case |
| 13 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 river | nmod |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 land | case |
| 15 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 land | amod |
| 16 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 river | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 takes | punct |
| 18 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 story | nmod:poss |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Suleiman | punct |
| 20 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Suleiman | flat |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 bin | punct |
| 22 | Daoud | Daoud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Suleiman | flat |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Suleiman | case |
| 24 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 takes | nsubj |
| 25 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 river | parataxis |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 takes | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 palace | case |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 palace | det |
| 29 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 palace | amod |
| 30 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 takes | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 Yemen | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 Yemen | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Queen | det |
| 34 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Queen | amod |
| 35 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Yemen | nsubj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 land | case |
| 37 | Sheba | Sheba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 land | nmod:poss |
| 38 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 37 Sheba | case |
| 39 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Queen | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Saba | punct |
| 41 | Saba | Saba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 land | appos |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Queen | punct |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 Yemen | cop |
| 44 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 46 Yemen | advmod |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 Yemen | case |
| 46 | Yemen | Yemen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 takes | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 river | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Everglades in Florida | a wide slow river | flat land | of grass | tree rules | ||
| 2 | take | present | Suleiman's story | place | a imagined palace | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in palace=Location | |||
| 3 | imagine | participle | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | the real Queen of Sheba's land | Yemen | probably property | tree rules |
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:16.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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