The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages, sentence 6
The Black Death killed perhaps a third to a half of Europe's people within a few years.
Who acts: Black Death · What happens: kill · To what, where: 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 (Black Death), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Death | det |
| 2 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Death | amod |
| 3 | Death | death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | nsubj |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 7 third | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 third | det |
| 7 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 killed | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 half | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 half | det |
| 10 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 third | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 12 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 people | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Europe | case |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 half | nmod |
| 15 | within | within | ADP | _ | 18 years | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 years | det |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 years | amod |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 killed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | the Black Death | a third | year | to a half of Europe's people | 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:6.
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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