Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta, sentence 0
Greece is full of mountains, sea and islands, so instead of one country the Greeks lived in hundreds of separate city-states, each called a polis, with its own government, army and laws.
Who acts: Greece, Greeks · What happens: be, live, call · To what, where: hundreds, each · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta» of the history 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 (Greece, Greeks), 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 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 full | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | cop |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mountains | case |
| 5 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 full | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sea | punct |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mountains | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 islands | cc |
| 9 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mountains | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lived | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 lived | advmod |
| 12 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 15 country | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 instead | fixed |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 country | nummod |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lived | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Greeks | det |
| 17 | Greeks | Greek | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 lived | nsubj |
| 18 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hundreds | case |
| 20 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lived | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 states | case |
| 22 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 states | amod |
| 23 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 states | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 city | punct |
| 25 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hundreds | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 polis | punct |
| 27 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 called | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 polis | amod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 polis | det |
| 30 | polis | polis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 states | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 government | punct |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 government | case |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 government | nmod:poss |
| 34 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 government | amod |
| 35 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 polis | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 army | punct |
| 37 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 government | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 laws | cc |
| 39 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 government | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 full | 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 | is | present | Greece | of mountains and sea and islands; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the Greeks | hundreds of separate city states a called polis | instead one country | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hundred=Location | |||
| 3 | call | participle · passive | each | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:history:011-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta.lesson:0.
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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