The Middle East and Central Asia, sentence 5
In Europa Universalis 5 this map looks very different: in 1337 Mamluk Egypt rules the Levant, Persia is a great power, and Constantinople is still Byzantine until the Ottomans take it in 1453.
Who acts: map, Mamluk, Persia, Constantinople, Ottomans · What happens: look, rule, be, take · To what, where: Levant, 1337, great power, 1453
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Middle East and Central Asia» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (map, Mamluk, Persia, Constantinople), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Europa | case |
| 2 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 looks | obl |
| 3 | Universalis | Universalis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Europa | flat |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Europa | flat |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 map | det |
| 6 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looks | nsubj |
| 7 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 different | advmod |
| 9 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 looks | xcomp |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 1337 | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 1337 | case |
| 12 | 1337 | 1337 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 rules | obl |
| 13 | Mamluk | Mamluk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 rules | nsubj |
| 14 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Mamluk | flat |
| 15 | rules | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 looks | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Levant | det |
| 17 | Levant | levant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 rules | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 power | punct |
| 19 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 power | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 power | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 power | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 power | amod |
| 23 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rules | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Byzantine | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Byzantine | cc |
| 26 | Constantinople | Constantinople | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Byzantine | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 Byzantine | cop |
| 28 | still | still | ADV | _ | 29 Byzantine | advmod |
| 29 | Byzantine | Byzantine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 power | conj |
| 30 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 33 take | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Ottomans | det |
| 32 | Ottomans | Ottoman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 33 take | nsubj |
| 33 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 Byzantine | advcl |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 take | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 1453 | case |
| 36 | 1453 | 1453 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 take | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | this map | in Europa; different property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in europa=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rule | present | Mamluk | the Levant | 1337 | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent levant=Result | |||
| 3 | is a | present | Persia | a great power | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Constantinople | still | byzantine property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | take | present | the Ottomans | Levant | 1453 | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in 1453=Location |
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, 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:geography:012-middle-east-and-central-asia.lesson:5.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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.
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