--- title: Marseilles, in the south of France, was founded by Greek sailors abo… — The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from… · tree and pragmatics description: Marseilles, in the south of France, was founded by Greek sailors about 2,600 years ago, which makes it one of the oldest cities in France; today it is a busy port. Who acts: Greek sailors, city. 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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 (Greek sailors, city), 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:13 # text = Marseilles, in the south of France, was founded by Greek sailors about 2,600 years ago, which makes it one of the oldest cities in France; today it is a busy port. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Marseilles Marseille PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 founded found VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 Greek Greek ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:agent _ _ 14 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 2,600 2,600 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 ago ago ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 xcomp _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 oldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 amod _ _ 26 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 today today ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 port port NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ _ 36 . . 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 | **found** | past · passive | Greek sailors | Marseilles | | | | ago *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | | south | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 3 | **is a** | present | city | a busy port | | | | today *property* | 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. 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