--- title: Constantinople is the old name of Istanbul in Turkey; the city stand… — The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from… · tree and pragmatics description: Constantinople is the old name of Istanbul in Turkey; the city stands on both sides of the Bosphorus strait, so part of it is in Europe and part in Asia. Who acts: Constantinople, city, part. 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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 (Constantinople, city, part), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.lesson:10 # text = Constantinople is the old name of Istanbul in Turkey; the city stands on both sides of the Bosphorus strait, so part of it is in Europe and part in Asia. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Constantinople Constantinople PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Istanbul Istanbul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Turkey Turkey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 16 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 Bosphorus Bosphorus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 strait strait NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Constantinople | the old name | | | | of Istanbul in Turkey | tree rules | | 2 | **stand** | present | the city | Istanbul in Turkey *not said here* | | both sides of the Bosphorus strait | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent istanbul=Theme on side=Destination | | 3 | **is** | present | part of city and part in Asia | | | Europe | | | tree rules | 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:062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.lesson:10`. **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): R8-pos-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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