The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages, sentence 8
At the time people blamed bad air, the stars or God's anger, because they did not know about germs.
Who acts: people, God · What happens: blame, not know, anger · To what, where: bad air
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 (people, God), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blamed | obl |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 blamed | nsubj |
| 5 | blamed | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 air | amod |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blamed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stars | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stars | det |
| 10 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 air | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 anger | cc |
| 12 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 anger | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 God | case |
| 14 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stars | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 know | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 know | advmod |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 blamed | advcl |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 germs | case |
| 22 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 know | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 blamed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | past | people | bad air and the stars or God's anger | time | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | |||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | people | about germs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about germ=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | anger | God | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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: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, R6-punct-agree ×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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