Why some places grew rich, sentence 0

Look at a map at night from space and the bright spots sit on coasts and rivers: water gave drinking water, fish and the cheapest road there was, so goods and people gathered there.

Who acts: you, bright spots, water, goods · What happens: look, sit, give, gather · To what, where: coasts, drinking water

This is a sentence of the lesson «Why some places grew rich» 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, bright spots, water, goods), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 map	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 map	det
4	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 space	case
8	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sit	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spots	det
11	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 spots	amod
12	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sit	nsubj
13	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 coasts	case
15	coasts	coast	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sit	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rivers	cc
17	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 coasts	conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 gave	punct
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gave	nsubj
20	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	conj
21	drinking	drinking	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 water	amod
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gave	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fish	punct
24	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 water	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 road	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 road	det
27	cheapest	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 road	amod
28	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 water	conj
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 was	expl
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 road	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 goods	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 goods	advmod
33	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	36 gathered	nsubj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 people	cc
35	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 goods	conj
36	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 gave	conj
37	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 gathered	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here			night	from space; at a map	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at map=Theme
2	sit	present	the bright spots		coasts and rivers			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on coast=Location
3	give	past	water	drinking water and fish and the cheapest road				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
4	gather	past	goods and people		there			vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=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:072-why-some-places-grew-rich.lesson:0.

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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×1, 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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