The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel, sentence 11
Venice in Italy is built on more than a hundred small islands in a lagoon, so it has canals instead of many of its streets, and people travel by boat, including the long black gondolas.
Who acts: city, people · What happens: build, have, travel, include · To what, where: Venice, hundred small islands, canals, long black gondolas
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 (city, people), 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 | Venice | Venice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 built | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Italy | case |
| 3 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Venice | nmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 built | aux:pass |
| 5 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 islands | case |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 10 hundred | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 more | fixed |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hundred | det |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 islands | nummod |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 islands | amod |
| 12 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 built | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 lagoon | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lagoon | det |
| 15 | lagoon | lagoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 islands | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 has | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 has | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 has | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 built | conj |
| 20 | canals | canal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 has | obj |
| 21 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 23 many | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 instead | fixed |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 has | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 streets | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 streets | nmod:poss |
| 26 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 many | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 travel | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 travel | cc |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 travel | nsubj |
| 30 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 has | conj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 boat | case |
| 32 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 travel | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 including | punct |
| 34 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 travel | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 gondolas | det |
| 36 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 gondolas | amod |
| 37 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 gondolas | amod |
| 38 | gondolas | gondola | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 travel | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 built | 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 | build | present · passive | Venice in Italy | hundred small islands in a lagoon | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on island=Source | ||||
| 2 | have | present | city | canals | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | travel | present | people | the long black gondolas | by boat | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by boat=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | include | gerund | people not said here | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: 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:062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.lesson:11.
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 ×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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