Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta, sentence 9

Homer's poems tell of the Greeks besieging Troy for ten years and of the hero Odysseus's long journey home; the wooden horse is a story from legend, not proven history.

Who acts: poems, Greeks, wooden horse, hero · What happens: tell, besiege, be, not prove, journey · To what, where: Troy, story, 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 (poems, Greeks, wooden horse, hero), 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	Homer	homer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 poems	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Homer	case
3	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Greeks	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Greeks	det
7	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 tell	obl
8	besieging	besiege	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 Greeks	acl
9	Troy	Troy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 besieging	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
11	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 besieging	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 journey	cc
14	of	of	ADP	_	20 journey	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hero	det
16	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 journey	nmod:poss
17	Odysseus	Odysseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 hero	appos
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Odysseus	case
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 journey	amod
20	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	conj
21	home	home	ADV	_	20 journey	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 horse	det
24	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 horse	amod
25	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 story	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 story	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 story	det
28	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	parataxis
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 legend	case
30	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 story	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 history	punct
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 proven	advmod
33	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 history	amod
34	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 legend	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Homer's poems				of the Greeks	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	besiege	gerund	the Greeks not said here	Troy		year		tree rules
3	is a	present	the wooden horse	a story	legend and proven history			tree rules
4	not prove	participle						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	journey		the hero					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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:9.

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 ×1, R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-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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