Why some places grew rich, sentence 5
Most old cities grew beside rivers, lakes or seas, which gave water, fish and cheap transport for goods.
Who acts: Most old cities, seas · What happens: grow, give · To what, where: rivers, 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 (Most old cities, seas), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 cities | amod |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cities | amod |
| 3 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 6 rivers | case |
| 6 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lakes | punct |
| 8 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rivers | conj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 seas | cc |
| 10 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rivers | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seas | acl:relcl |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fish | punct |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 water | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 transport | cc |
| 18 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 transport | amod |
| 19 | transport | transport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 water | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 goods | case |
| 21 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 19 transport | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Most old cities | rivers and lakes or seas | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside river=Location | ||||
| 2 | give | past | seas | water and fish and cheap transport for goods | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:5.
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 ×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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