Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers, sentence 12
The Greeks believed in many gods living on Mount Olympus, such as Zeus the king, Hera, Poseidon of the sea and Athena of wisdom, who behaved a lot like quarrelsome humans; the wild god Pan was said to fill people with sudden fear, which gave us the word panic.
Who acts: Greeks, many gods, Athena, sudden fear · What happens: believe, live, behave, say, fill, give · To what, where: king, Mount Olympus, lot, wild god, people, word panic · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers» 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 (Greeks, many gods, Athena, sudden fear), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Greeks | det |
| 2 | Greeks | Greek | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 believed | nsubj |
| 3 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 gods | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gods | amod |
| 6 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 believed | obl |
| 7 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 gods | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Olympus | case |
| 9 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Olympus | compound |
| 10 | Olympus | Olympus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 living | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Zeus | punct |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 14 Zeus | case |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 such | fixed |
| 14 | Zeus | Zeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Olympus | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 living | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Hera | punct |
| 18 | Hera | hera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Zeus | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Poseidon | punct |
| 20 | Poseidon | poseidon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 king | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sea | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sea | det |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Poseidon | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Athena | cc |
| 25 | Athena | Athena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 sea | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 wisdom | case |
| 27 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Athena | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 behaved | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 behaved | nsubj |
| 30 | behaved | behave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 Athena | acl:relcl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 lot | det |
| 32 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 behaved | obl |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 humans | case |
| 34 | quarrelsome | quarrelsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 humans | amod |
| 35 | humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 behaved | obl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 said | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 god | det |
| 38 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 god | amod |
| 39 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 said | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | Pan | Pan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 said | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 said | aux:pass |
| 42 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 believed | parataxis |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 fill | mark |
| 44 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 said | xcomp |
| 45 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 fill | obj |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 fear | case |
| 47 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 fear | amod |
| 48 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 fill | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 gave | punct |
| 50 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 gave | nsubj |
| 51 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 fear | acl:relcl |
| 52 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 gave | iobj |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 panic | det |
| 54 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 panic | compound |
| 55 | panic | panic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 gave | obj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | the Greeks | in many gods | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | many gods not said here | the king | Mount Olympus and Zeus and Hera | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location | |||
| 3 | behave | past | Athena of wisdom | a lot | like quarrelsome humans | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like human=Attribute | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · passive | the wild god | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fill | to-infinitive | people | with sudden fear | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent people=Patient with fear=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | give | past | sudden fear | the word panic | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient panic=Theme |
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:012-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers.lesson:12.
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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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