The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages, sentence 2

Think of a whole class where every third child is suddenly missing: after the plague there were so few workers that the survivors could ask for higher pay, and the old feudal system began to crack.

Who acts: you, third child, few workers, survivors, old feudal system · What happens: think, be, ask, begin, crack · To what, where: few workers

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 (you, third child, few workers, survivors), 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	Think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 class	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 class	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 class	amod
5	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Think	obl
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 missing	advmod
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 child	det
8	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 child	amod
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 missing	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 missing	cop
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 missing	advmod
12	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 class	acl:relcl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 were	punct
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 plague	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 plague	det
16	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 were	obl
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 were	expl
18	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Think	parataxis
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 few	advmod
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 workers	amod
21	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 were	nsubj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 ask	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 survivors	det
24	survivors	survivor	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 ask	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 ask	aux
26	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 workers	acl
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 pay	case
28	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 pay	amod
29	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ask	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 began	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 began	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 system	det
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 system	amod
34	feudal	feudal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 system	amod
35	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 began	nsubj
36	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 were	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 crack	mark
38	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 began	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here				of a whole class	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	every third child				missing, suddenly property	tree rules
3	be	past	few workers		there	after the plague		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	could	the survivors	few workers not said here			for higher pay	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent worker=Recipient
5	begin	past	the old feudal system					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	crack	to-infinitive	the old feudal system not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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: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, R7-rel-agree ×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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