The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world, sentence 8
In Baghdad's House of Wisdom scholars translated Greek, Persian and Indian books into Arabic, and many Greek works survived this way before being put into Latin.
Who acts: House, many Greek works · What happens: translate, survive, put · To what, where: Greek Indian books, Arabic, way, Latin
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 (House, many Greek works), 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 | 8 translated | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 scholars | case |
| 6 | Wisdom | wisdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 House | nmod |
| 7 | scholars | scholar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 translated | nmod |
| 8 | translated | translate | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 books | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Persian | punct |
| 11 | Persian | Persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Greek | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Persian | cc |
| 13 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 books | amod |
| 14 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 translated | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 Arabic | case |
| 16 | Arabic | Arabic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 translated | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 survived | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 survived | cc |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 works | amod |
| 20 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 works | amod |
| 21 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 survived | nsubj |
| 22 | survived | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 translated | conj |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 way | det |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 survived | obj |
| 25 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 27 put | mark |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 put | aux:pass |
| 27 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 survived | advcl |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 Latin | case |
| 29 | Latin | Latin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 put | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 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 | Baghdad's House Wisdom | Greek Indian books | into Arabic result; of scholars | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent book=Patient into arabic=Result | |||
| 2 | survive | past | many Greek works | this way | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Circumstance | ||||
| 3 | put | gerund · passive | many Greek works not said here | Latin | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» |
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:8.
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 ×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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