--- title: To sail from the Mediterranean to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, a… — The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from… · tree and pragmatics description: To sail from the Mediterranean to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, a ship passes through the Strait of Gibraltar, where Europe and Africa are only about 14 km apart. Who acts: ship, Europe. 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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 (ship, Europe), 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:14 # text = To sail from the Mediterranean to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, a ship passes through the Strait of Gibraltar, where Europe and Africa are only about 14 km apart. # 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): no change 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 sail sail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Mediterranean Mediterranean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Lisbon Lisbon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Portugal Portugal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 through through ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Strait Strait PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Gibraltar Gibraltar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 23 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 31 advmod _ _ 24 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 acl:relcl _ _ 32 apart apart ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sail** | to-infinitive | a ship *not said here* | | Lisbon | the Mediterranean | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from mediterranean=Trajectory | | 2 | **pass** | present | a ship | | | the Strait of Gibraltar | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through strait=Location | | 3 | **is a** | present | Europe and Africa | 14 km | | | | apart *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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