Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean, sentence 8

The Arsenal of Venice was a huge state shipyard that could build ships one after another, almost like a factory, and it was one of the largest workplaces in Europe before the industrial age.

Who acts: Arsenal, huge state shipyard · What happens: be, build · To what, where: huge state shipyard, ships, one

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 (Arsenal, huge state shipyard), 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 Arsenal	det
2	Arsenal	arsenal	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 shipyard	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Venice	case
4	Venice	Venice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Arsenal	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shipyard	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 shipyard	det
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shipyard	amod
8	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shipyard	compound
9	shipyard	shipyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 build	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 build	aux
12	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 shipyard	acl:relcl
13	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 build	obj
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 build	obl
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 another	case
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 one	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 factory	punct
18	almost	almost	ADV	_	21 factory	advmod
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 factory	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 factory	det
21	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 build	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 one	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 one	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 one	cop
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 shipyard	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 workplaces	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 workplaces	det
29	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 workplaces	amod
30	workplaces	workplace	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 one	nmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 Europe	case
32	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 workplaces	nmod
33	before	before	ADP	_	36 age	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 age	det
35	industrial	industrial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 age	amod
36	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 workplaces	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 shipyard	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Arsenal of Venice	a huge state shipyard		tree rules
2	build	could	a huge state shipyard	ships	like a factory; one after another obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ship=Product
3	is a	past	Arsenal	one	of the largest workplaces in Europe before the industrial age	tree rules

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:8.

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, 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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