The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages, sentence 13
After the plague so many workers had died that survivors could ask for higher pay, and many peasants won more freedom.
Who acts: many workers, survivors, many peasants · What happens: die, ask, win · To what, where: more freedom
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 (many workers, survivors, many peasants), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 plague | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 plague | det |
| 3 | plague | plague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 died | obl |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 many | advmod |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 workers | amod |
| 6 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 died | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 died | aux |
| 8 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 ask | mark |
| 10 | survivors | survivor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ask | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 ask | aux |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 died | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 pay | case |
| 14 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 pay | amod |
| 15 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ask | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 won | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 won | cc |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 peasants | amod |
| 19 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 won | nsubj |
| 20 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 died | conj |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 freedom | amod |
| 22 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 won | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 died | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past · perfect | many workers | after the plague | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | could | survivors | for higher pay | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | win | past | many peasants | more freedom | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Eventuality |
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:13.
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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