Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes, sentence 2
Amina from Mali says Mansa Musa was the richest man ever, innit.
Who acts: Amina, Mansa · What happens: say, be · To what, where: richest man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» 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 (Amina, Mansa), 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 | Amina | Amina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Mali | case |
| 3 | Mali | Mali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Amina | nmod |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Mansa | Mansa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 man | nsubj |
| 6 | Musa | Musa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mansa | flat |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 man | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 man | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 innit | punct |
| 13 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 4 says | discourse |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | 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 | say speech: assert | present | Amina from Mali | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Mansa | the richest man | ever | 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:070-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes.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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