--- title: When two rivers meet, the water mixes into something new, but some f… — What was lost and what was gained: languages, fo… · tree and pragmatics description: When two rivers meet, the water mixes into something new, but some fish from each river are lost; when peoples met, they too made new things, like jazz, Haitian Creole, mestizo culture and fish and chips, and lost others, like burned books and languages that nearly fell silent. 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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 (two rivers, water, peoples, languages), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:077-what-was-lost-and-what-was-gained.lesson:0 # text = When two rivers meet, the water mixes into something new, but some fish from each river are lost; when peoples met, they too made new things, like jazz, Haitian Creole, mestizo culture and fish and chips, and lost others, like burned books and languages that nearly fell silent. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 077-what-was-lost-and-what-was-gained.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 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 meet meet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 mixes mix VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 obl _ _ 11 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 14 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 15 det _ _ 15 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 22 when when SCONJ WRB _ 24 mark _ _ 23 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 too too ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 29 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 jazz jazz NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 Haitian haitian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 Creole creole NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 mestizo mestizo NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 culture culture NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 chips chip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 conj _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 47 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 like like ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 burned burn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 51 amod _ _ 51 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obl _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 conj _ _ 54 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 56 nsubj _ _ 55 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 56 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 53 acl:relcl _ _ 57 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 xcomp _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | present | two rivers | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mix** | present | the water | | | | | into something | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient into something=Co-Patient | | 3 | **lose** | present · passive | | some fish from each river | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 4 | **meet** | past | peoples | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | past | peoples *= people* | new things | | | | like jazz mestizo culture and fish and chips and Haitian Creole | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product | | 6 | **lose** | past | peoples *= people* *not said here* | others | | | | like burned books and languages | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality | | 7 | **burn** | participle | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **fall** | past | languages | | | | | nearly, silent *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:077-what-was-lost-and-what-was-gained.lesson:0`. **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): no change. **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: [When civilizations meet: conquest, col…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/76-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides/16/) - next →: [What was lost and what was gained: lan…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/77-what-was-lost-and-what-was-gained/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/77-what-was-lost-and-what-was-gained/)