The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel, sentence 13

Marseilles, in the south of France, was founded by Greek sailors about 2,600 years ago, which makes it one of the oldest cities in France; today it is a busy port.

Who acts: Greek sailors, city · What happens: found, make, be · To what, where: Marseilles, south, busy port

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 (Greek sailors, city), 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	Marseilles	Marseille	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 founded	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Marseilles	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 south	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 south	det
5	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Marseilles	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 France	case
7	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 south	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Marseilles	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 founded	aux:pass
10	founded	found	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 sailors	case
12	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sailors	amod
13	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 founded	obl:agent
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 2,600	advmod
15	2,600	2,600	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ago	obl:unmarked
17	ago	ago	ADV	_	10 founded	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 makes	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 makes	nsubj
20	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 founded	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 makes	obj
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 makes	xcomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 cities	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cities	det
25	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 cities	amod
26	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 one	nmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 France	case
28	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 cities	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 port	punct
30	today	today	ADV	_	35 port	advmod
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 port	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 port	cop
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 port	det
34	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 port	amod
35	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 founded	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 founded	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	found	past · passive	Greek sailors	Marseilles	ago property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	make	present		south		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	is a	present	city	a busy port	today property	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:13.

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): R6-punct-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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