The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel, sentence 6
A river starts at its source, is joined by smaller streams called tributaries, and ends at its mouth; where a river meets the sea and the tide comes in, the wide part is called an estuary.
Who acts: river, smaller streams, tide · What happens: start, join, call, end, meet, come in · To what, where: source, tributaries, mouth, sea, wide part · 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 (river, smaller streams, tide), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 river | det |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 starts | nsubj |
| 3 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 source | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 source | nmod:poss |
| 6 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 starts | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 joined | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 joined | aux:pass |
| 9 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 starts | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 streams | case |
| 11 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 streams | amod |
| 12 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 joined | obl |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 streams | acl |
| 14 | tributaries | tributary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 called | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ends | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ends | cc |
| 17 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 starts | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 mouth | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ends | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 meets | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 meets | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 river | det |
| 24 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 meets | nsubj |
| 25 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 called | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sea | det |
| 27 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 meets | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 comes | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tide | det |
| 30 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 comes | nsubj |
| 31 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 meets | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADV | _ | 31 comes | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 called | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 part | det |
| 35 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 part | amod |
| 36 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 called | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 called | aux:pass |
| 38 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 starts | parataxis |
| 39 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 estuary | det |
| 40 | estuary | estuary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 called | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 starts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | a river | River's source | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | join | present · passive | smaller streams | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | call | participle | smaller streams not said here | tributaries | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | end | present | a river not said here | River's mouth | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | meet | present | a river | the sea | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | come in | present | the tide | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | call | present · passive | the wide part | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:6.
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 ×1, 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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