The first farms and towns, sentence 14
Jericho, near the river Jordan, is one of the oldest towns in the world; over 10,000 years ago its people built a stone wall and a tall tower.
Who acts: Jericho, people · What happens: be, build · To what, where: one, stone wall
This is a sentence of the lesson «The first farms and towns» of the history 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 (Jericho, people), 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 | Jericho | Jericho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jericho | punct |
| 3 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 Jordan | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 river | det |
| 5 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Jordan | compound |
| 6 | Jordan | Jordan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jericho | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jericho | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | cop |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 towns | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 towns | det |
| 12 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 towns | amod |
| 13 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 towns | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 18 | over | over | ADV | _ | 19 10,000 | advmod |
| 19 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 years | nummod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 24 built | advmod |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 people | nmod:poss |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 built | nsubj |
| 24 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | parataxis |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 wall | det |
| 26 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wall | compound |
| 27 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 built | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 tower | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 tower | det |
| 30 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 tower | amod |
| 31 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wall | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Jericho near river Jordan | one | of the oldest towns in the world | tree rules | |||
| 2 | build | past | world's people | a stone wall and a tall tower | ago property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Product |
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:history:002-the-first-farms-and-towns.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): R5-strong ×3. 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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