Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew, sentence 14
France grew from the lands around Paris held by its kings into a large, united kingdom by absorbing great territories such as Burgundy and Brittany; Brittany joined through royal marriages and was formally united with France in 1532.
Who acts: France, Brittany · What happens: grow, hold, absorb, join, unite · To what, where: lands, great territories, royal marriages, 1532
This is a sentence of the lesson «Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew» 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 (France, Brittany), 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 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 lands | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lands | det |
| 5 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grew | obl |
| 6 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 Paris | case |
| 7 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lands | nmod |
| 8 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lands | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 kings | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 kings | nmod:poss |
| 11 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 held | obl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 kingdom | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 kingdom | det |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kingdom | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 large | punct |
| 16 | united | united | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kingdom | amod |
| 17 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | obl |
| 18 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 19 absorbing | mark |
| 19 | absorbing | absorb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 grew | advcl |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 territories | amod |
| 21 | territories | territory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 absorbing | obj |
| 22 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 24 Burgundy | case |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 such | fixed |
| 24 | Burgundy | Burgundy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 territories | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Brittany | cc |
| 26 | Brittany | Brittany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Burgundy | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 joined | punct |
| 28 | Brittany | Brittany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 joined | nsubj |
| 29 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grew | parataxis |
| 30 | through | through | ADP | _ | 32 marriages | case |
| 31 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 marriages | amod |
| 32 | marriages | marriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 joined | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 united | cc |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 united | aux:pass |
| 35 | formally | formally | ADV | _ | 36 united | advmod |
| 36 | united | unite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 joined | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 France | case |
| 38 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 united | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 1532 | case |
| 40 | 1532 | 1532 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 united | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | 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 | grow | past | France | the lands around Paris | into a large united kingdom result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into kingdom=Result | |||
| 2 | hold | participle | the lands around Paris not said here | by land's kings | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by king=Location | ||||
| 3 | absorb | gerund | France not said here | great territories | such Burgundy and Brittany | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal territory=Theme | |||
| 4 | join | past | Brittany | royal marriages | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | unite | past · passive | Brittany not said here | 1532 | with France; formally property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: with france=Co-Patient |
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:034-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew.lesson:14.
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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