Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers made them safe, sentence 6
For most of history only a small share of people lived in cities: around 1800 perhaps 1 person in 14 did.
Who acts: people, small share · What happens: live, do, share · To what, where: most, cities, 1800, 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 (people, small share), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 8 share | case |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 lived | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 history | case |
| 4 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 most | nmod |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 share | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 share | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 share | amod |
| 8 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 did | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 share | nmod |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 people | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 cities | case |
| 13 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lived | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 1800 | punct |
| 15 | around | around | ADP | _ | 16 1800 | case |
| 16 | 1800 | 1800 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 did | obl |
| 17 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 18 1 | advmod |
| 18 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 person | nummod |
| 19 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 did | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 14 | case |
| 21 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 person | nmod |
| 22 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 did | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | participle | people not said here | most of history | cities | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location | |||
| 2 | do | past | a small share of people | 1800 | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | share | people | nom share «possession transitive»: of=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:073-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe.lesson:6.
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 ×3. 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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