The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel, sentence 10

Constantinople is the old name of Istanbul in Turkey; the city stands on both sides of the Bosphorus strait, so part of it is in Europe and part in Asia.

Who acts: Constantinople, city, part · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: old name, Istanbul, sides, Europe

This is a sentence of the lesson «The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel» 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 (Constantinople, city, part), 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	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 name	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 name	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 name	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 name	amod
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Istanbul	case
7	Istanbul	Istanbul	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 name	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Turkey	case
9	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Istanbul	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 stands	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 city	det
12	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stands	nsubj
13	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Istanbul	acl:relcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 sides	case
15	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	16 sides	det
16	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stands	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 strait	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 strait	det
19	Bosphorus	Bosphorus	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 strait	compound
20	strait	strait	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sides	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 part	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 part	advmod
23	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Europe	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 part	nmod
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 Europe	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 Europe	case
28	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 name	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 part	cc
30	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 part	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 Asia	case
32	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 part	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 name	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Constantinople	the old name		of Istanbul in Turkey	tree rules
2	stand	present	the city	Istanbul in Turkey not said here	both sides of the Bosphorus strait		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent istanbul=Theme on side=Destination
3	is	present	part of city and part in Asia		Europe		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:062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.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): 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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