The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey, sentence 2
He was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in India in 1865, went to school in England, and later lived in America and spent many winters in South Africa, so his animals wander across the whole globe.
Who acts: animals · What happens: bear, go, live, spend, wander · To what, where: Kipling, India, England, America, South Africa, whole globe
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 (animals), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 born | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 born | aux:pass |
| 3 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Bombay | case |
| 5 | Bombay | Bombay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 born | obl |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mumbai | punct |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 Mumbai | advmod |
| 8 | Mumbai | Mumbai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Bombay | appos |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mumbai | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 India | case |
| 11 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 born | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1865 | case |
| 13 | 1865 | 1865 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 born | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 born | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 school | case |
| 17 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 England | case |
| 19 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lived | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lived | cc |
| 22 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 lived | advmod |
| 23 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 born | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 America | case |
| 25 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 lived | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 spent | cc |
| 27 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lived | conj |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 winters | amod |
| 29 | winters | winter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 spent | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Africa | case |
| 31 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Africa | compound |
| 32 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 spent | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 wander | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 wander | advmod |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 animals | nmod:poss |
| 36 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 wander | nsubj |
| 37 | wander | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 born | parataxis |
| 38 | across | across | ADP | _ | 41 globe | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 globe | det |
| 40 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 globe | amod |
| 41 | globe | globe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 wander | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 born | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | Kipling | India | in Bombay; in 1865 | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | go | past | England | to school | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | live | past | America | late property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in america=Location | ||||
| 4 | spend | past | South Africa | winter | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | wander | present | Kipling's animals | the whole globe | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across globe=Trajectory |
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:2.
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 ×2, 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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