Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs, sentence 2
Imagine a long green ribbon of fields on a huge sandy map: that ribbon is where nearly all Egyptians lived.
Who acts: you, ribbon · What happens: imagine, be · To what, where: long green ribbon
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 (you, ribbon), 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 | Imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ribbon | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ribbon | amod |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ribbon | amod |
| 5 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Imagine | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fields | case |
| 7 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ribbon | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 map | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 map | det |
| 10 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 map | amod |
| 11 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 map | amod |
| 12 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fields | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 lived | punct |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 ribbon | det |
| 15 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 lived | cop |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 lived | advmod |
| 18 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 19 all | advmod |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 Egyptians | det |
| 20 | Egyptians | Egyptian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 lived | nsubj |
| 21 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ribbon | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | imperative | you not said here | a long green ribbon of fields on a huge sandy map | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ribbon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that ribbon | live property | tree rules |
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:2.
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. 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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