The game map and the real map: what EU5 simplifies, sentence 3

Real armies and letters crawled at walking or riding pace, winter could stop a campaign dead, rivers silted up, the sea took and gave back land, and a storm could wreck a fleet, as it helped wreck the Spanish Armada in 1588.

Who acts: Real armies, winter, sea, storm, land · What happens: crawl, stop, silt up, take, give back, wreck · To what, where: walking, campaign, rivers, land, fleet, Spanish Armada

This is a sentence of the lesson «The game map and the real map: what EU5 simplifies» 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 (Real armies, winter, sea, storm), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 armies	amod
2	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 crawled	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 letters	cc
4	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 armies	conj
5	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 walking	case
7	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crawled	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 pace	cc
9	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pace	compound
10	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walking	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stop	punct
12	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stop	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 stop	aux
14	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 crawled	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 campaign	det
16	campaign	campaign	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stop	obj
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stop	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rivers	punct
19	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stop	parataxis
20	silted	silt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 rivers	acl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 silted	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sea	det
24	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	nsubj
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 rivers	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gave	cc
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 took	conj
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 gave	advmod
29	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 wreck	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 wreck	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 storm	det
33	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wreck	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 wreck	aux
35	wreck	wreck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 gave	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 fleet	det
37	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wreck	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 helped	punct
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 helped	mark
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 helped	nsubj
41	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 wreck	advcl
42	wreck	wreck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 helped	xcomp
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Armada	det
44	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 Armada	amod
45	Armada	Armada	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 wreck	obj
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 1588	case
47	1588	1588	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	42 wreck	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 crawled	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	crawl	past	Real armies and letters		walking or riding pace		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at walking=Trajectory
2	stop	could	winter	a campaign		dead property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality campaign=Eventuality
3	silt up	participle		rivers not said here			tree rules
4	take	past	the sea				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	give back	past	the sea not said here	land			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme
6	wreck	could	a storm	a fleet			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleet=Patient
7	help	past	land				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	wreck	infinitive	land not said here	the Spanish Armada	1588		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armada=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:040-the-game-map-and-the-real-map-what-eu5-simplifies.lesson:3.

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): R1-cc-next ×4, 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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