Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barges and how not to tip a rowing boat, sentence 7
A canal is a waterway dug by people; Britain's canal age ran from about 1760 to the 1830s, starting with the Bridgewater Canal of 1761, which carried coal to Manchester and made it much cheaper.
Who acts: canal, canal age, Bridgewater Canal · What happens: be, dig, run, start, carry, make · To what, where: waterway, 1760, coal, Manchester, canal
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barges and how not to tip a rowing boat» of the technology 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 (canal, canal age, Bridgewater Canal), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 canal | det |
| 2 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waterway | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 waterway | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 waterway | det |
| 5 | waterway | waterway | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 waterway | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dug | obl:agent |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 ran | punct |
| 10 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 age | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Britain | case |
| 12 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 age | compound |
| 13 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ran | nsubj |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waterway | parataxis |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 1760 | case |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 1760 | advmod |
| 17 | 1760 | 1760 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 ran | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 1830s | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 1830s | det |
| 20 | 1830s | 1830 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 17 1760 | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 starting | punct |
| 22 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 ran | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 Canal | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Canal | det |
| 25 | Bridgewater | Bridgewater | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Canal | compound |
| 26 | Canal | Canal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 starting | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 1761 | case |
| 28 | 1761 | 1761 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 Canal | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 carried | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 carried | nsubj |
| 31 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 Canal | acl:relcl |
| 32 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 carried | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 Manchester | case |
| 34 | Manchester | Manchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 carried | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 made | cc |
| 36 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 carried | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 made | obj |
| 38 | much | much | ADV | _ | 39 cheaper | advmod |
| 39 | cheaper | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 made | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waterway | 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 | is a | present | a canal | a waterway | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dig | participle | a waterway not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | run | past | Britain's canal age | 1760 to the 1830s | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from 1760=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | start | gerund | Britain's canal age not said here | with the Bridgewater Canal of 1761 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with canal=Subeventuality | ||||
| 5 | carry | past | the Bridgewater Canal of 1761 | coal | Manchester | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coal=Theme to manchester=Destination | |||
| 6 | make | past | the Bridgewater Canal of 1761 not said here | canal | cheap property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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.
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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 ×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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