Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs, sentence 1
Every summer it flooded and left rich black mud along its banks, perfect for crops.
Who acts: thanks · What happens: flood, leave · To what, where: rich black mud, banks
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs» 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 (thanks), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 summer | det |
| 2 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flooded | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flooded | nsubj |
| 4 | flooded | flood | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 left | cc |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flooded | conj |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mud | amod |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mud | amod |
| 9 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obj |
| 10 | along | along | ADP | _ | 12 banks | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 banks | nmod:poss |
| 12 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 left | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 perfect | punct |
| 14 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mud | amod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 crops | case |
| 16 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 perfect | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flooded | 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 | flood | past | thanks | summer | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | thanks not said here | rich black mud | thanks's banks | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mud=Theme along bank=Location |
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:005-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs.lesson:1.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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