Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall, sentence 8
Chinese civilisation grew up along the Yellow River and the Yangtze, and the Yellow River's floods brought rich soil but also terrible disasters.
Who acts: Chinese civilisation, floods, Yellow River · What happens: grow up, bring, flood · To what, where: Yellow River, 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 (Chinese civilisation, 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 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 civilisation | amod |
| 2 | civilisation | civilisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grew | compound:prt |
| 5 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 River | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 River | det |
| 7 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 River | amod |
| 8 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Yangtze | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Yangtze | det |
| 11 | Yangtze | Yangtze | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 River | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 brought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 soil | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 River | det |
| 15 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 River | amod |
| 16 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 floods | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 River | case |
| 18 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 brought | nsubj |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 20 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 soil | amod |
| 21 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obj |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 disasters | cc |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 terrible | advmod |
| 24 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 disasters | amod |
| 25 | disasters | disaster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 soil | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 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 up | past | Chinese civilisation | the Yellow River and the Yangtze | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along river=Location | ||||
| 2 | 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 | ||||
| 3 | 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: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 ×1, R6-punct-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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