Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean, sentence 11
Constantinople, later called Istanbul, became the Ottoman capital and controlled the straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.
Who acts: Constantinople · What happens: call, become, control · To what, where: Constantinople, Ottoman capital, straits · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | Constantinople | Constantinople | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 became | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 3 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 called | advmod |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Constantinople | acl |
| 5 | Istanbul | Istanbul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Constantinople | punct |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 capital | det |
| 9 | Ottoman | ottoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 capital | compound |
| 10 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 controlled | cc |
| 12 | controlled | control | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 became | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 straits | det |
| 14 | straits | strait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 controlled | obj |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 18 Sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Sea | det |
| 17 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Sea | compound |
| 18 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 straits | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Mediterranean | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Mediterranean | det |
| 21 | Mediterranean | Mediterranean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Sea | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | Constantinople not said here | late property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | become | past | Constantinople | the Ottoman capital | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | control | past | Constantinople not said here | the straits | between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strait=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, 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:11.
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): 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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