Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta, sentence 4

Some stories about these times, like the wooden horse of Troy, the Minotaur or the film 300, are legend or fantasy, and a good historian says which is which.

Who acts: stories, good historian · What happens: be, say · To what, where: legend · 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 (stories, good historian), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 stories	det
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 legend	nsubj
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 times	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 times	det
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stories	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 horse	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 horse	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horse	det
9	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 horse	amod
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 times	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Troy	case
12	Troy	Troy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 horse	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Minotaur	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Minotaur	det
15	Minotaur	minotaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Troy	appos
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 film	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 film	det
18	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Minotaur	conj
19	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 film	flat
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 times	punct
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 legend	cop
22	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 fantasy	cc
24	fantasy	fantasy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 legend	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 says	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 says	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 historian	det
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 historian	amod
29	historian	historian	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 says	nsubj
30	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 legend	conj
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 which	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 which	cop
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 says	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 legend	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	some stories about this times and the wooden horse of Troy	legend or fantasy	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	a good historian		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		legend or fantasy	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:history:011-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta.lesson:4.

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): no change. 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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