Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us, sentence 17

The Byzantines kept Roman law and Greek books alive and spread Orthodox Christianity to places like Kyiv and Moscow.

Who acts: Byzantines · What happens: keep, spread · To what, where: Roman law, Orthodox Christianity

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us» 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 (Byzantines), 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 Byzantines	det
2	Byzantines	byzantine	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 law	amod
5	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 books	cc
7	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 books	amod
8	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 law	conj
9	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kept	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 spread	cc
11	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	conj
12	Orthodox	orthodox	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Christianity	amod
13	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 spread	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 places	case
15	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 spread	obl
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 Kyiv	case
17	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 places	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Moscow	cc
19	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Kyiv	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the Byzantines	Roman law and Greek books				alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme
2	spread	past	the Byzantines not said here	Orthodox Christianity				to places like Kyiv and Moscow	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location christianity=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:016-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us.lesson:17.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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