Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 16
The name Canada comes from kanata, an Iroquoian word for village that Cartier heard.
Who acts: name, Cartier · What happens: come, hear · To what, where: kanata, Iroquoian word
This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there» 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 (name, Cartier), 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 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 name | appos |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 kanata | case |
| 6 | kanata | kanata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 word | punct |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 word | det |
| 9 | Iroquoian | Iroquoian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 word | amod |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kanata | appos |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 village | case |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 word | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 heard | obj |
| 14 | Cartier | Cartier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 word | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the name | kanata | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from kanata=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Cartier | a Iroquoian word for village | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
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:027-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there.lesson:16.
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, 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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