Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms, sentence 4
The cities slowly emptied, probably as rivers changed course and the climate dried.
Who acts: cities, rivers, climate · What happens: empty, change, dry · To what, where: course
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms» 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 (cities, rivers, climate), 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 cities | det |
| 2 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 emptied | nsubj |
| 3 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 4 emptied | advmod |
| 4 | emptied | empty | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rivers | punct |
| 6 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 9 changed | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 changed | mark |
| 8 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 changed | nsubj |
| 9 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 emptied | advcl |
| 10 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 changed | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dried | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 climate | det |
| 13 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dried | nsubj |
| 14 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 changed | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 emptied | 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 | empty | past | the cities | slowly property | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 2 | change | past | rivers | course | probably property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Patient | |||
| 3 | dry | past | the climate | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:007-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms.lesson:4.
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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