--- title: Jericho, near the river Jordan, is one of the oldest towns in the wo… — The first farms and towns · tree and pragmatics description: Jericho, near the river Jordan, is one of the oldest towns in the world; over 10,000 years ago its people built a stone wall and a tall tower. Who acts: Jericho, people. 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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 (Jericho, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:002-the-first-farms-and-towns.lesson:14 # text = Jericho, near the river Jordan, is one of the oldest towns in the world; over 10,000 years ago its people built a stone wall and a tall tower. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 002-the-first-farms-and-towns.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): R5-strong ×3 1 Jericho Jericho PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 near near ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 5 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Jordan Jordan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 oldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 18 over over ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 10,000 10000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl:unmarked 21 ago ago ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 32 . . 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 | **is a** | present | Jericho near river Jordan | one | | | | of the oldest towns in the world | tree rules | | 2 | **build** | past | world's people | a stone wall and a tall tower | | | | ago *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Product | 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:history:002-the-first-farms-and-towns.lesson:14`. **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): R5-strong ×3. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The first farms and towns, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/2-the-first-farms-and-towns/13/) - next →: [The first farms and towns, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/2-the-first-farms-and-towns/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/2-the-first-farms-and-towns/)