From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries, sentence 2
Kofi thinks borders follow rivers and mountains.
Who acts: Kofi, borders · What happens: think, follow · To what, where: rivers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries» 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 (Kofi, borders), 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 | Kofi | Kofi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 follow | nsubj |
| 4 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 thinks | ccomp |
| 5 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 follow | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mountains | cc |
| 7 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rivers | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Kofi | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | follow | present | borders | rivers and mountains | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Theme |
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:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.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): no change. 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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