--- title: The Erie Canal, opened in 1825, linked the Great Lakes to the Hudson… — Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts · tree and pragmatics description: The Erie Canal, opened in 1825, linked the Great Lakes to the Hudson River, helping New York become the leading port of the United States. Who acts: Erie Canal, New York. 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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 (Erie Canal, New York), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:020-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts.lesson:20 # text = The Erie Canal, opened in 1825, linked the Great Lakes to the Hudson River, helping New York become the leading port of the United States. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 020-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts.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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Erie Erie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Canal Canal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 opened open VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 1825 1825 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 linked link VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 Lakes lake PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 9 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 13 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Hudson Hudson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 River River PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 helping help VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 19 New New PROPN NNP _ 20 compound _ _ 20 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 leading lead VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 amod _ _ 24 port port NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj 25 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 United United PROPN NNP _ 28 compound _ _ 28 States State PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | participle | | the Erie Canal *not said here* | | 1825 | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1825=Location | | 2 | **link** | past | the Erie Canal | the Great Lakes | | | | to the Hudson River | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent lake=Patient to river=Co-Patient | | 3 | **help** | gerund | the Erie Canal *not said here* | New York | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent york=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **become** | infinitive | New York *not said here* | the leading port of the United States | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **lead** | gerund | | | | | | | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | 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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