Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean, sentence 3

The game makes this sea a board of fleets and trade routes, which is fair, but it hides the people at the oars: galleys on both sides were often rowed by captives and enslaved people.

Who acts: game, trade routes, captives · What happens: make, be, hide, row · To what, where: sea, people, oars, galleys

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 (game, trade routes, captives), 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	2 game	det
2	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 board	det
7	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 fleets	case
9	fleets	fleet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 board	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 routes	cc
11	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 routes	compound
12	routes	route	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fleets	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fair	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 fair	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fair	cop
16	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 routes	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hides	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 hides	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hides	nsubj
20	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 people	det
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hides	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 oars	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 oars	det
25	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hides	obl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 galleys	punct
27	galleys	galley	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 rowed	nsubj:pass
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 sides	case
29	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	30 sides	det
30	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 galleys	nmod
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 rowed	aux:pass
32	often	often	ADV	_	33 rowed	advmod
33	rowed	row	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 hides	conj
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 captives	case
35	captives	captive	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 rowed	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 people	cc
37	enslaved	enslaved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 people	amod
38	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 captives	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present	the game	this sea			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sea=Product
2	is	present	trade routes			fair property	tree rules
3	hide	present	game	the people	the oars		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Patient at oar=Location
4	row	past · passive	captives and enslaved people	galleys on both sides		often property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Location

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:3.

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, 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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