The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world, sentence 2
In Baghdad's House of Wisdom scholars of many faiths translated Greek, Persian and Indian books into Arabic, much as a group of friends today might translate a game into every language so everyone can play it.
Who acts: scholars, group, everyone · What happens: translate, play · To what, where: Greek Indian books, House, game, language
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world» 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 (scholars, group, everyone), 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 | _ | 4 House | case |
| 2 | Baghdad | Baghdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 House | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Baghdad | case |
| 4 | House | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 translated | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 scholars | case |
| 6 | Wisdom | wisdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 House | nmod |
| 7 | scholars | scholar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 translated | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 faiths | case |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 faiths | amod |
| 10 | faiths | faith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 scholars | nmod |
| 11 | translated | translate | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 books | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Persian | punct |
| 14 | Persian | Persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Greek | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Persian | cc |
| 16 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 books | amod |
| 17 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 translated | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 Arabic | case |
| 19 | Arabic | Arabic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 translated | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 group | punct |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 29 translate | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 translate | mark |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 group | det |
| 24 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 translate | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 friends | case |
| 26 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 group | nmod |
| 27 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 translate | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 translate | aux |
| 29 | translate | translate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 translated | advcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 game | det |
| 31 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 translate | obj |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 language | case |
| 33 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 language | det |
| 34 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 translate | obl |
| 35 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 38 play | mark |
| 36 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 38 play | nsubj |
| 37 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 play | aux |
| 38 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 translate | advcl |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 play | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 translated | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | translate | past | scholars of many faiths | Greek Indian books | Baghdad's House Wisdom | into Arabic result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent book=Patient into arabic=Result | ||
| 2 | translate | might | a group of friends | a game | today | into every language result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent game=Patient into language=Result | ||
| 3 | play | can | everyone | game | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:022-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world.lesson:2.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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