The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages, sentence 0

In 1347 ships from the Black Sea brought a deadly plague to Europe, and within a few years it killed perhaps a third to a half of all the people.

Who acts: ships, plague · What happens: bring, kill · To what, where: deadly plague, Europe, 1347, third

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» 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 (ships, plague), 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	_	2 1347	case
2	1347	1347	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 brought	obl
3	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 brought	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 Sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sea	det
6	Black	Black	PROPN	_	7 Sea	compound
7	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ships	nmod
8	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 plague	det
10	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plague	amod
11	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brought	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Europe	case
13	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 brought	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 killed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 killed	cc
16	within	within	ADP	_	19 years	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 years	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 years	amod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 killed	obl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 killed	nsubj
21	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 brought	conj
22	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	24 third	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 third	det
24	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 killed	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 half	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 half	det
27	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	24 third	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 people	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 people	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 people	det
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 half	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 brought	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	ships from the Black Sea	a deadly plague	Europe	1347			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent plague=Theme to europe=Destination
2	kill	past	plague	a third			year		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=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:024-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages.lesson:0.

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): 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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