--- title: The White Nile and the Blue Nile meet at Khartoum in Sudan, and the… — The great rivers · tree and pragmatics description: The White Nile and the Blue Nile meet at Khartoum in Sudan, and the Blue Nile from Ethiopia brings most of the water and the rich silt that once flooded Egypt every year. Who acts: White Nile, Blue Nile, rich silt. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (White Nile, Blue Nile, rich silt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:016-the-great-rivers.lesson:8 # text = The White Nile and the Blue Nile meet at Khartoum in Sudan, and the Blue Nile from Ethiopia brings most of the water and the rich silt that once flooded Egypt every year. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 016-the-great-rivers.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 White White ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Nile Nile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Blue Blue ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Nile Nile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 8 meet meet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Khartoum Khartoum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Sudan Sudan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Blue Blue ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 Nile Nile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Ethiopia Ethiopia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 silt silt NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 30 once once ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 flooded flood VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | present | the White Nile and the Blue Nile | | | Khartoum | | in Sudan | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bring** | present | the Blue Nile from Ethiopia | most of the water and the rich silt | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent most=Theme | | 3 | **flood** | past | the rich silt | Egypt | | | year | once *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent egypt=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:geography:016-the-great-rivers.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The great rivers, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/7/) - next →: [The great rivers, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/)