Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean, sentence 6
Venice was a merchant republic ruled by an elected Doge (a duke chosen for life) and councils of noble families.
Who acts: Venice · What happens: be, rule, elect, choose · To what, where: merchant republic, duke
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 (Venice), 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 | Venice | Venice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 republic | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 republic | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 republic | det |
| 4 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 republic | compound |
| 5 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 republic | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Doge | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Doge | det |
| 9 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Doge | amod |
| 10 | Doge | doge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ruled | obl:agent |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 duke | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 duke | det |
| 13 | duke | duke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Doge | appos |
| 14 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 duke | acl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chosen | obl |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 duke | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 councils | cc |
| 19 | councils | council | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Doge | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 families | case |
| 21 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 families | amod |
| 22 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 councils | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 republic | 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 | is a | past | Venice | a merchant republic | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rule | participle | a merchant republic not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | elect | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | choose | participle | a duke not said here | for life | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for life=Beneficiary |
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:6.
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 ×2, 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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