Explorers and how the world was mapped, sentence 1
Each people knew its own lands well, but far-off places were blank or filled with guesses.
Who acts: people, far places · What happens: know, be, fill · To what, where: own lands
This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers and how the world was mapped» of the world 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, far places), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lands | amod |
| 6 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 knew | obj |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | _ | 3 knew | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blank | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 blank | cc |
| 10 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 places | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 far | punct |
| 12 | off | off | ADV | _ | 10 far | advmod |
| 13 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 blank | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 blank | cop |
| 15 | blank | blank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knew | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 filled | cc |
| 17 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 blank | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 guesses | case |
| 19 | guesses | guess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 filled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | each people | world's own lands | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | far places | blank property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fill | participle | far places not said here | with guesses | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with guess=Instrument |
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:world:098-explorers-mapping-the-world.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): 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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