Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean, sentence 9

The Ottomans began as a small state in north-west Anatolia, in today's Turkey, around 1300 and grew into an empire across south-eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

Who acts: Ottomans · What happens: begin, grow · To what, where: Turkey, 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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Ottomans	det
2	Ottomans	Ottoman	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	7 state	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 state	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 state	amod
7	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 Anatolia	case
9	north	north	ADV	_	11 west	advmod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 north	punct
11	west	west	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Anatolia	amod
12	Anatolia	Anatolia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 state	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Turkey	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 Turkey	case
15	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Turkey	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 today	case
17	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 began	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 1300	punct
19	around	around	ADP	_	20 1300	case
20	1300	1300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 began	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 grew	cc
22	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 empire	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 empire	det
25	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 grew	obl
26	across	across	ADP	_	30 Europe	case
27	south	south	ADV	_	29 eastern	advmod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 south	punct
29	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Europe	amod
30	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 empire	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 East	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 East	det
33	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 East	compound
34	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Europe	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 Africa	cc
36	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Africa	compound
37	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Europe	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Ottomans			today's Turkey		as a small state in west Anatolia; around 1300	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	grow	past	the Ottomans not said here					into a empire across eastern Europe and the Middle East and North Africa 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:9.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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