The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings, sentence 12
In 793 Vikings raided the monastery of Lindisfarne in England, and this is often called the start of the Viking Age.
Who acts: Vikings · What happens: raid, call, start · To what, where: monastery, 793, this, Viking Age · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings» 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 (Vikings), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 793 | case |
| 2 | 793 | 793 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 raided | obl |
| 3 | Vikings | viking | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 raided | nsubj |
| 4 | raided | raid | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 monastery | det |
| 6 | monastery | monastery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raided | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Lindisfarne | case |
| 8 | Lindisfarne | Lindisfarne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 monastery | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 England | case |
| 10 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lindisfarne | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 called | cc |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 called | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 called | aux:pass |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 called | advmod |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 raided | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 start | det |
| 18 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Age | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Age | det |
| 21 | Viking | viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Age | compound |
| 22 | Age | age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 start | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 raided | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raid | past | Vikings | the monastery of Lindisfarne in England | 793 | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent monastery=Location | |||
| 2 | call | present · passive | this | often property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | start | the Viking Age | nom start «event transitive»: of=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:020-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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