The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel, sentence 14

To sail from the Mediterranean to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, a ship passes through the Strait of Gibraltar, where Europe and Africa are only about 14 km apart.

Who acts: ship, Europe · What happens: sail, pass, be · To what, where: Lisbon, Mediterranean, Strait, 14 km

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 (ship, Europe), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 sail	mark
2	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 passes	advcl
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 Mediterranean	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mediterranean	det
5	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sail	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Lisbon	case
7	Lisbon	Lisbon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sail	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 capital	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 capital	det
10	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Lisbon	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Portugal	case
12	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 capital	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 passes	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 ship	det
15	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 passes	nsubj
16	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 Strait	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Strait	det
19	Strait	Strait	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 passes	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Gibraltar	case
21	Gibraltar	Gibraltar	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Strait	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 km	punct
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 km	advmod
24	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 km	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Africa	cc
26	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Europe	conj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 km	cop
28	only	only	ADV	_	30 14	advmod
29	about	about	ADV	_	30 14	advmod
30	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 km	nummod
31	km	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Strait	acl:relcl
32	apart	apart	ADV	_	31 km	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 passes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sail	to-infinitive	a ship not said here		Lisbon	the Mediterranean		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from mediterranean=Trajectory
2	pass	present	a ship			the Strait of Gibraltar		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through strait=Location
3	is a	present	Europe and Africa	14 km			apart 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:14.

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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