--- title: The Aswan High Dam, finished in 1970, stopped the Nile's yearly floo… — The great rivers · tree and pragmatics description: The Aswan High Dam, finished in 1970, stopped the Nile's yearly flood, giving steady water and electricity but holding back the silt. Who acts: Aswan High Dam, Nile. 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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 (Aswan High Dam, Nile), 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:9 # text = The Aswan High Dam, finished in 1970, stopped the Nile's yearly flood, giving steady water and electricity but holding back the silt. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Aswan Aswan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 High high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Dam dam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 1970 1970 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Nile Nile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 yearly yearly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 flood flood NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 18 steady steady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 24 back back ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 silt silt NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **finish** | participle | | the Aswan High Dam *not said here* | | 1970 | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **stop** | past | the Aswan High Dam | the Nile's yearly flood | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector flood=Eventuality | | 3 | **give** | gerund | the Aswan High Dam *not said here* | steady water and electricity | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 4 | **hold back** | gerund | the Aswan High Dam *not said here* | the silt | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silt=Theme | | 5 | **flood** | | the Nile | | | | | | 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](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. 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