The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world, sentence 3
Many old Greek books survived only because of those Arabic copies, which were later turned into Latin and reached Europe's universities.
Who acts: Many old Greek books · What happens: survive, turn, reach · To what, where: Arabic copies, Latin, universities
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 (Many old Greek books), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 books | amod |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 books | amod |
| 3 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 books | amod |
| 4 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 survived | nsubj |
| 5 | survived | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 survived | advmod |
| 7 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 11 copies | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 because | fixed |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 copies | det |
| 10 | Arabic | Arabic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 copies | amod |
| 11 | copies | copy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 survived | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 turned | aux:pass |
| 15 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 turned | advmod |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 copies | acl:relcl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 Latin | case |
| 18 | Latin | Latin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 reached | cc |
| 20 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 turned | conj |
| 21 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 universities | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Europe | case |
| 23 | universities | university | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 reached | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 survived | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | survive | past | Many old Greek books | because that Arabic copies | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | past · passive | that Arabic copies | into Latin result; late property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into latin=Result | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | Europe's universities | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent university=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:3.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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