--- title: The city of Porto, which the Sea Rat calls Oporto, gave its name to… — The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from… · tree and pragmatics description: The city of Porto, which the Sea Rat calls Oporto, gave its name to the whole country of Portugal; Bordeaux is a port on a river in south-west France. Who acts: Sea Rat, city, Bordeaux. 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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 (Sea Rat, city, Bordeaux), 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:15 # text = The city of Porto, which the Sea Rat calls Oporto, gave its name to the whole country of Portugal; Bordeaux is a port on a river in south-west France. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Porto Porto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 obj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 11 Oporto Oporto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Portugal Portugal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 Bordeaux Bordeaux PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 port port NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 33 west west ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present | the Sea Rat | the city of Porto | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient | | 2 | **give** | past | the city of Porto | city's name | the whole country of Portugal | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to country=Recipient | | 3 | **is a** | present | Bordeaux | a port | | a river in south west France | | | tree rules | | 4 | **name** | | city | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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