Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean, sentence 16
Mediterranean galleys were often rowed by prisoners, captives and enslaved people, on both Christian and Muslim sides.
Who acts: prisoners · What happens: row, enslave · To what, where: Mediterranean galleys, Christian sides
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 (prisoners), 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 | Mediterranean | Mediterranean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 galleys | amod |
| 2 | galleys | galley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rowed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rowed | aux:pass |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 rowed | advmod |
| 5 | rowed | row | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 prisoners | case |
| 7 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rowed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 captives | punct |
| 9 | captives | captive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 prisoners | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 people | cc |
| 11 | enslaved | enslave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 people | amod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 prisoners | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Christian | punct |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 sides | case |
| 15 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 sides | det |
| 16 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sides | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Muslim | cc |
| 18 | Muslim | Muslim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Christian | conj |
| 19 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rowed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rowed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | row | past · passive | prisoners and captives and enslaved people | Mediterranean galleys | both Christian sides | often property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Location | ||
| 2 | enslave | participle | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:16.
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): R7-rel-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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