Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta, sentence 7
On Crete the Minoans built the palace of Knossos with many rooms about 3,700 years ago, and they loved the sea and bull-leaping.
Who acts: Minoans · What happens: build, love · To what, where: palace, Crete, sea
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 (Minoans), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 Crete | case |
| 2 | Crete | Crete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 built | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Minoans | det |
| 4 | Minoans | Minoan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 built | nsubj |
| 5 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 built | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Knossos | case |
| 9 | Knossos | Knossos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 palace | nmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 rooms | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rooms | amod |
| 12 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 palace | nmod |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 3,700 | advmod |
| 14 | 3,700 | 3,700 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 built | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 loved | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 loved | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 loved | nsubj |
| 20 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 built | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sea | det |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 loved | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 leaping | cc |
| 24 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 leaping | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 bull | punct |
| 26 | leaping | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sea | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 built | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | the Minoans | the palace of Knossos | Crete | with many rooms; ago property | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent palace=Theme on crete=Source | ||
| 2 | love | past | Minoans = minoan | the sea and bull leaping | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sea=Stimulus |
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:7.
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 ×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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