Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers made them safe, sentence 15
Central Park in New York was planned from 1858 to give crowded city people green space; it did not just happen.
Who acts: it · What happens: plan, give, not happen · To what, where: Central Park, 1858, green space, crowded city people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers made them safe» 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 (it), 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 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Park | flat |
| 2 | Park | Park | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 planned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 York | case |
| 4 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 York | flat |
| 5 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Park | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 planned | aux:pass |
| 7 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 1858 | case |
| 9 | 1858 | 1858 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 planned | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 give | mark |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 planned | advcl |
| 12 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 people | compound |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 give | iobj |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 space | amod |
| 16 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 happen | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 happen | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 happen | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 happen | advmod |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 happen | advmod |
| 22 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 planned | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 planned | 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 | plan | past · passive | Central Park in New York | 1858 | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | green space | crowded city people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient space=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not happen | past · do-support | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «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:073-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe.lesson:15.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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