Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers, sentence 9
Once a year Athenians could vote to send a too-powerful politician away for ten years by scratching his name on a bit of broken pottery called an ostrakon; this is called ostracism.
Who acts: Athenians, broken pottery, Athens · What happens: vote, send, scratch, call, name · To what, where: powerful politician, name, bit, ostrakon, this · 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 (Athenians, broken pottery, Athens), 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 | Once | once | ADV | _ | 3 year | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vote | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Athenians | Athenian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 vote | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 vote | aux |
| 6 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 send | mark |
| 8 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 vote | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 politician | det |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 powerful | advmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 too | punct |
| 12 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 politician | amod |
| 13 | politician | politician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 send | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 send | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 years | case |
| 16 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 years | nummod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 send | obl |
| 18 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 19 scratching | mark |
| 19 | scratching | scratch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 send | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 name | nmod:poss |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 scratching | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 bit | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bit | det |
| 24 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 scratching | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 pottery | case |
| 26 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pottery | amod |
| 27 | pottery | pottery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bit | nmod |
| 28 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 pottery | acl |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 ostrakon | det |
| 30 | ostrakon | ostrakon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 called | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 called | punct |
| 32 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 called | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 called | aux:pass |
| 34 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 vote | conj |
| 35 | ostracism | ostracism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 called | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 vote | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vote | could | Athenians | year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | to-infinitive | Athenians not said here | a powerful politician | year | away property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent politician=Theme | ||
| 3 | scratch | gerund | Athenians not said here | Athens's name | a bit of broken pottery | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme on bit=Destination | |||
| 4 | call | participle | broken pottery not said here | a ostrakon | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ostrakon=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | call | present · passive | this | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | name | Athens | nom name «communication 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:012-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers.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): R2-punct-next ×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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