Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean, sentence 17

After 1500 the Mediterranean slowly became less central to world trade as Atlantic and ocean routes grew.

Who acts: Mediterranean, Atlantic routes · What happens: become, grow

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 (Mediterranean, Atlantic routes), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 1500	case
2	1500	1500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 became	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Mediterranean	det
4	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 became	nsubj
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 became	advmod
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 central	advmod
8	central	central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 became	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 trade	case
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trade	compound
11	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 central	obl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 grew	mark
13	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 routes	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 routes	cc
15	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Atlantic	conj
16	routes	route	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 grew	nsubj
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the Mediterranean				after 1500	central, slowly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	grow	past	Atlantic routes						vn appear-48.1.1 «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, 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:17.

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, R6-punct-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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