The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings, sentence 15
Vikings settled Iceland and Greenland, and Iceland's Althing, founded in 930, is one of the oldest parliaments still working.
Who acts: Vikings, Althing, oldest parliaments · What happens: settle, found, be, work · To what, where: Iceland, Althing, 930, one
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, Althing, oldest parliaments), 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 | Vikings | viking | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 settled | nsubj |
| 2 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Iceland | Iceland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 settled | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Greenland | cc |
| 5 | Greenland | Greenland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Iceland | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 one | cc |
| 8 | Iceland | Iceland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Althing | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Iceland | case |
| 10 | Althing | Althing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 one | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 founded | punct |
| 12 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Althing | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 930 | case |
| 14 | 930 | 930 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 founded | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Althing | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 one | cop |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 settled | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 parliaments | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 parliaments | det |
| 20 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 parliaments | amod |
| 21 | parliaments | parliament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 working | advmod |
| 23 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 parliaments | acl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 settled | 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 | settle | past | Vikings | Iceland and Greenland | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme iceland=Location | ||||
| 2 | found | participle | Iceland's Althing not said here | 930 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Iceland's Althing | one | of the oldest parliaments | tree rules | |||
| 4 | work | gerund | the oldest parliaments not said here | still | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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:020-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings.lesson:15.
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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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