Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation, sentence 10
In 1517 Martin Luther, a German monk, criticised the Church for selling forgiveness, and printing spread his ideas quickly.
Who acts: Martin Luther, printing · What happens: criticise, sell, spread · To what, where: Church, 1517, forgiveness, ideas
This is a sentence of the lesson «Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation» 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 (Martin Luther, printing), 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 1517 | case |
| 2 | 1517 | 1517 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 criticised | obl |
| 3 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Luther | compound |
| 4 | Luther | Luther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 criticised | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Luther | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 monk | det |
| 7 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 monk | amod |
| 8 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Luther | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Luther | punct |
| 10 | criticised | criticise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Church | det |
| 12 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 criticised | obj |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 selling | mark |
| 14 | selling | sell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 criticised | advcl |
| 15 | forgiveness | forgiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 selling | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 criticised | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 spread | cc |
| 18 | printing | printing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spread | nsubj |
| 19 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 criticised | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ideas | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 spread | obj |
| 22 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 19 spread | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 criticised | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | criticise | past | Martin Luther | the Church | 1517 | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sell | gerund | Martin Luther not said here | forgiveness | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spread | past | printing | Printing's ideas | quickly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location idea=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:025-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation.lesson:10.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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