Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean, sentence 2

In 1337, when Europa Universalis 5 begins, the Ottomans were only a small beylik, a little Turkish princedom, in north-west Anatolia; within about 120 years they took Constantinople and grew into a huge empire.

Who acts: Europa, Ottomans · What happens: begin, be, take, grow · To what, where: small beylik, 1337, Constantinople, huge 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 (Europa, Ottomans), 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 1337	case
2	1337	1337	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 beylik	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 begins	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 begins	mark
5	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 begins	nsubj
6	Universalis	Universalis	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Europa	flat
7	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 Europa	flat
8	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 1337	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 1337	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Ottomans	det
11	Ottomans	Ottoman	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 beylik	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 beylik	cop
13	only	only	ADV	_	16 beylik	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 beylik	det
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 beylik	amod
16	beylik	beylik	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 took	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 princedom	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 princedom	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 princedom	amod
20	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 princedom	amod
21	princedom	princedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beylik	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Anatolia	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	27 Anatolia	case
24	north	north	ADV	_	26 west	advmod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 north	punct
26	west	west	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Anatolia	amod
27	Anatolia	Anatolia	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 beylik	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 took	punct
29	within	within	ADP	_	32 years	case
30	about	about	ADV	_	31 120	advmod
31	120	120	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 years	nummod
32	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 took	obl
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 took	nsubj
34	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
35	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 took	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 grew	cc
37	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 took	conj
38	into	into	ADP	_	41 empire	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 empire	det
40	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 empire	amod
41	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 grew	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 beylik	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	begin	present	Europa						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is a	past	the Ottomans	a small beylik and west Anatolia		1337			tree rules
3	take	past	Ottomans = ottoman		Constantinople		year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument constantinople=Destination
4	grow	past	Ottomans = ottoman not said here					into a huge empire result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into empire=Result

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:2.

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, R7-rel-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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