The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel, sentence 15
The city of Porto, which the Sea Rat calls Oporto, gave its name to the whole country of Portugal; Bordeaux is a port on a river in south-west France.
Who acts: Sea Rat, city, Bordeaux · What happens: call, give, be, name · To what, where: city, name, whole country, port, river · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sea Rat, city, Bordeaux), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Porto | case |
| 4 | Porto | Porto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 city | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 calls | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 calls | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Rat | det |
| 8 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Rat | compound |
| 9 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 calls | nsubj |
| 10 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 city | acl:relcl |
| 11 | Oporto | Oporto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 calls | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Oporto | punct |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 name | nmod:poss |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 country | amod |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Portugal | case |
| 21 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 country | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 port | punct |
| 23 | Bordeaux | Bordeaux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 port | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 port | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 port | det |
| 26 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | parataxis |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 river | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 river | det |
| 29 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 port | nmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 France | case |
| 31 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 France | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 France | punct |
| 33 | west | west | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 France | amod |
| 34 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 river | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | 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 | call | present | the Sea Rat | the city of Porto | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the city of Porto | city's name | the whole country of Portugal | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to country=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is a | present | Bordeaux | a port | a river in south west France | tree rules | |||
| 4 | name | city | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:15.
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): R7-rel-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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