Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers, sentence 19

Alexander of Macedon, taught by Aristotle, conquered a huge empire from Greece to Egypt and India before he died at 32, and founded Alexandria in Egypt.

Who acts: Alexander · What happens: teach, conquer, die, found · To what, where: Alexander, huge empire, Greece, 32, Alexandria, Egypt

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 (Alexander), 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	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 conquered	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 Macedon	case
3	Macedon	Macedon	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Alexander	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 taught	punct
5	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Alexander	acl:relcl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 Aristotle	case
7	Aristotle	Aristotle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 taught	obl:agent
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Alexander	punct
9	conquered	conquer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 empire	det
11	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 empire	amod
12	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 conquered	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 Greece	case
14	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 empire	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Egypt	case
16	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 empire	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 India	cc
18	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Egypt	conj
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 died	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 died	nsubj
21	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 conquered	advcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 32	case
23	32	32	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 died	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 founded	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 founded	cc
26	founded	found	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 conquered	conj
27	Alexandria	Alexandria	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 founded	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 Egypt	case
29	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 founded	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 conquered	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	participle		Alexander of Macedon not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	conquer	past	Alexander of Macedon	a huge empire	Greece	to Egypt and India	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=Patient
3	die	past	Alexander		32		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	found	past	Alexander of Macedon not said here	Alexandria	Egypt		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alexandria=Patient

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:19.

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): 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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