Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean, sentence 10
The Ottoman sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople in 1453, ending the Byzantine Empire.
Who acts: Ottoman sultan · What happens: capture, end · To what, where: Constantinople, 1453, Byzantine Empire
This is a sentence of the lesson «Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean» 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 (Ottoman sultan), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sultan | det |
| 2 | Ottoman | ottoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sultan | compound |
| 3 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 captured | nsubj |
| 4 | Mehmed | Mehmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 captured | nsubj |
| 5 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 4 Mehmed | flat |
| 6 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Constantinople | Constantinople | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 captured | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1453 | case |
| 9 | 1453 | 1453 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 captured | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ending | punct |
| 11 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 captured | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Empire | det |
| 13 | Byzantine | Byzantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Empire | compound |
| 14 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ending | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 captured | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | capture | past | the Ottoman sultan | Constantinople | 1453 | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constantinople=Theme | |||
| 2 | end | gerund | the Ottoman sultan not said here | the Byzantine Empire | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality empire=Eventuality |
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:032-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean.lesson:10.
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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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