The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings, sentence 18
Vikings believed in Odin, Thor with his hammer, Loki the trickster, and Valhalla, the hall of fallen warriors; Marvel's Thor and Loki are very different from the old myths.
Who acts: Vikings, Thor · What happens: believe, fall, be · To what, where: Odin, old myths
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, Thor), 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 believed | nsubj |
| 2 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Odin | case |
| 4 | Odin | Odin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 believed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Thor | punct |
| 6 | Thor | Thor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Odin | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hammer | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hammer | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Thor | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Loki | punct |
| 11 | Loki | Loki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Odin | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trickster | det |
| 13 | trickster | trickster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Loki | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Valhalla | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Valhalla | cc |
| 16 | Valhalla | Valhalla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Vikings | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hall | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hall | det |
| 19 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Valhalla | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 warriors | case |
| 21 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 warriors | amod |
| 22 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hall | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 Thor | punct |
| 24 | Marvel | Marvel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Thor | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Marvel | case |
| 26 | Thor | Thor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 different | nsubj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Loki | cc |
| 28 | Loki | Loki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Thor | conj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 different | cop |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 31 different | advmod |
| 31 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 believed | parataxis |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 myths | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 myths | det |
| 34 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 myths | amod |
| 35 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 different | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 different | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | Vikings Valhalla | Odin and Thor with Thor's hammer and Loki | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | Marvel's Thor and Loki | the old myths | different property | tree rules |
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:18.
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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