Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew, sentence 5
Moscow was a small principality, a land ruled by a prince, under the overlordship of the Golden Horde in 1337, and it grew into the centre of a large Russian state; Ivan III stopped paying tribute, the yearly payment of a ruled land to its overlord, to the Horde in 1480.
Who acts: Moscow, land, Ivan · What happens: be, rule, grow, stop, pay · To what, where: small principality, land, centre, tribute, ruled land
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 (Moscow, land, Ivan), 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 | Moscow | Moscow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 principality | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 principality | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 principality | det |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 principality | amod |
| 5 | principality | principality | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 land | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 land | det |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 principality | appos |
| 9 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 land | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 prince | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ruled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 overlordship | punct |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 overlordship | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 overlordship | det |
| 16 | overlordship | overlordship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 principality | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Horde | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Horde | det |
| 19 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Horde | amod |
| 20 | Horde | Horde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 overlordship | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 1337 | case |
| 22 | 1337 | 1337 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 Horde | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 grew | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 grew | cc |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 grew | nsubj |
| 26 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 principality | conj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 centre | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 centre | det |
| 29 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 grew | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 state | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 state | det |
| 32 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 state | amod |
| 33 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 state | amod |
| 34 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 centre | nmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 stopped | punct |
| 36 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 stopped | nsubj |
| 37 | III | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 36 Ivan | flat |
| 38 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 principality | parataxis |
| 39 | paying | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 stopped | xcomp |
| 40 | tribute | tribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 paying | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 payment | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 payment | det |
| 43 | yearly | yearly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 payment | amod |
| 44 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 principality | conj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 land | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 land | det |
| 47 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 land | amod |
| 48 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 payment | nmod |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 overlord | case |
| 50 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 overlord | nmod:poss |
| 51 | overlord | overlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 payment | nmod |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 Horde | punct |
| 53 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 Horde | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 Horde | det |
| 55 | Horde | Horde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 principality | conj |
| 56 | in | in | ADP | _ | 57 1480 | case |
| 57 | 1480 | 1480 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 55 Horde | nmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 principality | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Moscow | a small principality and the overlordship of the Golden Horde in 1337 and the yearly payment of a ruled land to land's overlord and the Horde in 1480 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rule | participle | a land not said here | by a prince | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | land | into the centre of a large Russian state result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into centre=Result | ||||
| 4 | stop | past | Ivan | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | pay | gerund | Ivan not said here | tribute | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribute=Asset | ||||
| 6 | rule | participle | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | pay | a ruled land | to land's overlord | nom payment «possession transitive»: of=patient to=obl |
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:5.
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): 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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