The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey, sentence 9
The Limpopo is a real river, about 1,750 kilometres long, that forms the northern border of South Africa with Botswana and Zimbabwe and flows into the Indian Ocean in Mozambique; its banks really are lined with yellow-barked fever trees.
Who acts: Limpopo, real river · What happens: be, form, flow, line, bark · To what, where: real river, northern border, Indian Ocean, banks
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 (Limpopo, real river), 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 Limpopo | det |
| 2 | Limpopo | Limpopo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 river | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 river | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 river | amod |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 river | punct |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 1,750 | advmod |
| 9 | 1,750 | 1,750 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 kilometres | nummod |
| 10 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 long | obl |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 river | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 forms | nsubj |
| 14 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 river | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 border | det |
| 16 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 border | amod |
| 17 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forms | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Africa | case |
| 19 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Africa | compound |
| 20 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 border | nmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 Botswana | case |
| 22 | Botswana | Botswana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 border | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Zimbabwe | cc |
| 24 | Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Botswana | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 flows | cc |
| 26 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 forms | conj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 Ocean | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Ocean | det |
| 29 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Ocean | amod |
| 30 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 flows | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Mozambique | case |
| 32 | Mozambique | Mozambique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 flows | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 lined | punct |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 banks | nmod:poss |
| 35 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 lined | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | really | really | ADV | _ | 38 lined | advmod |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 lined | aux:pass |
| 38 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 forms | conj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 trees | case |
| 40 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 barked | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 yellow | punct |
| 42 | barked | bark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 trees | amod |
| 43 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 trees | compound |
| 44 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 lined | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 river | 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 | is a | present | the Limpopo | a real river | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | form | present | a real river | the northern border of South Africa | with Botswana and Zimbabwe | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location border=Theme | |||
| 3 | flow | present | a real river not said here | the Indian Ocean | in Mozambique | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mozambique=Location | |||
| 4 | line | present · passive | Limpopo's banks | with barked fever trees | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with tree=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bark | participle | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: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): R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-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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