Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall, sentence 1
The Yellow River's floods brought rich soil but also terrible disasters.
Who acts: floods, Yellow River · What happens: bring, flood · To what, where: rich soil
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall» 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 (floods, Yellow River), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 River | det |
| 2 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 River | amod |
| 3 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 floods | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 River | case |
| 5 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brought | nsubj |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 soil | amod |
| 8 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obj |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 disasters | cc |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 terrible | advmod |
| 11 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 disasters | amod |
| 12 | disasters | disaster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 soil | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the Yellow River's floods | rich soil but terrible disasters | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent soil=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flood | the Yellow River | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:009-ancient-china-dynasties-the-first-emperor-and-the-great-wall.lesson:1.
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): no change. 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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