The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings, sentence 4

Their longships were light and fast and could sail up shallow rivers, so Vikings could appear far from home without warning, like a speedboat that also fits in a stream.

Who acts: longships, Vikings, speedboat · What happens: be, sail up, appear, fit · To what, where: shallow rivers, home, stream

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 (longships, Vikings, speedboat), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 longships	nmod:poss
2	longships	longship	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 light	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 light	cop
4	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fast	cc
6	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 light	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sail	cc
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sail	aux
9	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 light	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 sail	compound:prt
11	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rivers	amod
12	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sail	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 appear	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 appear	advmod
15	Vikings	viking	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 appear	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 appear	aux
17	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 light	conj
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 appear	advmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 home	case
20	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 appear	obl
21	without	without	ADP	_	22 warning	case
22	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 appear	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 speedboat	punct
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 speedboat	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 speedboat	det
26	speedboat	speedboat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 appear	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 fits	nsubj
28	also	also	ADV	_	29 fits	advmod
29	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 speedboat	acl:relcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 stream	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 stream	det
32	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fits	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 light	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	People's longships			light property	tree rules
2	be		People's longships not said here				tree rules
3	sail up	could	People's longships not said here	shallow rivers			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme river=Trajectory
4	appear	could	Vikings		home	without warning; like a speedboat; far property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fit	present	a speedboat		a stream		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in stream=Trajectory

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:4.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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