Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs, sentence 7
Egypt is mostly desert, but the Nile flooded every summer and left rich black mud along its banks, perfect for crops.
Who acts: Egypt, Nile · What happens: be, flood, leave · To what, where: desert, 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 (Egypt, Nile), 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 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 desert | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 desert | cop |
| 3 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 4 desert | advmod |
| 4 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flooded | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 flooded | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Nile | det |
| 8 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 flooded | nsubj |
| 9 | flooded | flood | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 desert | conj |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 summer | det |
| 11 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flooded | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 left | cc |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 flooded | conj |
| 14 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mud | amod |
| 15 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mud | amod |
| 16 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 left | obj |
| 17 | along | along | ADP | _ | 19 banks | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 banks | nmod:poss |
| 19 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 left | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 perfect | punct |
| 21 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 banks | amod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 crops | case |
| 23 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 perfect | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 desert | 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 | Egypt | desert | mostly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | flood | past | the Nile | summer | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | the Nile not said here | rich black mud | Nile'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:7.
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): 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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