Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers made them safe, sentence 8

In the hot summer of 1858 the River Thames in London smelled so bad from waste that it was called the Great Stink; the engineer Joseph Bazalgette then built a huge sewer system, mostly finished by the 1870s and still in use.

Who acts: River Thames, engineer · What happens: smell, call, build, finish · To what, where: Thames, huge sewer system · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (River Thames, engineer), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 summer	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 summer	det
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 summer	amod
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 smelled	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 1858	case
6	1858	1858	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 summer	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Thames	det
8	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Thames	compound
9	Thames	Thames	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 smelled	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 London	case
11	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Thames	nmod
12	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 bad	advmod
14	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 smelled	xcomp
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 waste	case
16	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bad	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 called	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 called	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 called	aux:pass
20	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 smelled	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Stink	det
22	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Stink	amod
23	Stink	stink	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 called	xcomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 built	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 engineer	det
26	engineer	engineer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 built	nsubj
27	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 engineer	appos
28	Bazalgette	Bazalgette	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Joseph	flat
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 built	advmod
30	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 smelled	parataxis
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 system	det
32	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 system	amod
33	sewer	sewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 system	compound
34	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 built	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 finished	punct
36	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	37 finished	advmod
37	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 system	acl
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 1870s	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 1870s	det
40	1870s	1870	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	37 finished	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 use	cc
42	still	still	ADV	_	44 use	advmod
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 use	case
44	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 finished	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 smelled	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	smell	past	the River Thames in London		summer	bad property	vn see-30.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	call	past · passive		Thames			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	build	past	the engineer	a huge sewer system	then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset system=Product
4	finish	participle		a huge sewer system not said here		by the 1870s; mostly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:8.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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