The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia, sentence 17

The Safavid dynasty took power in Persia in 1501 and made Shia Islam the state religion, while their Ottoman neighbours and rivals were Sunni Muslims, and its capital Isfahan was one of the finest cities of the 1600s.

Who acts: Safavid dynasty, Ottoman neighbours, capital · What happens: take, make, be · To what, where: power, Persia, Shia Islam, Sunni Muslims, one

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia» 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 (Safavid dynasty, Ottoman neighbours, capital), 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	3 dynasty	det
2	Safavid	Safavid	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dynasty	compound
3	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Persia	case
7	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 1501	case
9	1501	1501	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 took	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 made	cc
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
12	Shia	Shia	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Islam	compound
13	Islam	Islam	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 made	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 religion	det
15	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 religion	compound
16	religion	religion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Muslims	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 Muslims	mark
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 neighbours	nmod:poss
20	Ottoman	ottoman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 neighbours	amod
21	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 Muslims	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rivals	cc
23	rivals	rival	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 neighbours	conj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 Muslims	cop
25	Sunni	Sunni	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Muslims	amod
26	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 made	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 one	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 one	cc
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 capital	nmod:poss
30	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 one	nsubj
31	Isfahan	Isfahan	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 capital	appos
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 one	cop
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 Muslims	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 cities	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 cities	det
36	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 cities	amod
37	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 one	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 1600s	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 1600s	det
40	1600s	1600	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	37 cities	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the Safavid dynasty	power	Persia	in 1501	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent power=Value in persia=Location
2	make	past	the Safavid dynasty not said here	Shia Islam			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset islam=Product
3	is a	past	dynasties's Ottoman neighbours and rivals	Sunni Muslims			tree rules
4	is a	past	religion's capital	one		of the finest cities of the 1600s	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:035-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia.lesson:17.

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 ×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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