The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel, sentence 12

Sicily is the biggest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and Palermo is its main city; Sardinia belongs to Italy and Corsica, just north of it, belongs to France.

Who acts: Sicily, Palermo, Sardinia · What happens: be, belong · To what, where: biggest island, Mediterranean Sea, main city, Italy, France

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 (Sicily, Palermo, Sardinia), 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	Sicily	Sicily	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 island	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 island	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 island	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 island	amod
5	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 Sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sea	det
8	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Sea	compound
9	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 island	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 city	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 city	cc
12	Palermo	Palermo	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 city	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 city	cop
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 city	nmod:poss
15	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 city	amod
16	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 island	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 belongs	punct
18	Sardinia	Sardinia	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 belongs	nsubj
19	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 city	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 Italy	case
21	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 belongs	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Corsica	cc
23	Corsica	Corsica	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Italy	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 north	punct
25	just	just	ADV	_	26 north	advmod
26	north	north	ADV	_	30 belongs	advmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 north	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 north	punct
30	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 belongs	parataxis
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 France	case
32	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 belongs	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 island	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Sicily	the biggest island and city's main city		the Mediterranean Sea		tree rules
2	is a	present	Palermo	city's main city				tree rules
3	belong	present	Sardinia		Italy and Corsica			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	belong	present			France		north property	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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:12.

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): no change. 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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