Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us, sentence 20

After the fall of the West, monks in monasteries copied old books by hand, and without them many Roman and Greek books would be lost.

Who acts: monks · What happens: copy, lose · To what, where: old books, many Roman books

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 (monks), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 fall	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fall	det
3	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 copied	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 West	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 West	det
6	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fall	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fall	punct
8	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 copied	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 monasteries	case
10	monasteries	monastery	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 monks	nmod
11	copied	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 books	amod
13	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 copied	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 hand	case
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 copied	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lost	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lost	cc
18	without	without	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lost	obl
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 books	amod
21	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 books	amod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Greek	cc
23	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Roman	conj
24	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lost	nsubj:pass
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 lost	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 lost	aux:pass
27	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 copied	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 copied	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	past	monks in monasteries	old books			after the fall of the West	by hand	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Theme by hand=Destination
2	lose	would · passive		many Roman books				without monks = monk	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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:20.

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, 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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