Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus, sentence 14

In the 11th century Kyiv was one of Europe's largest cities, perhaps 40,000–50,000 people, but Constantinople, Baghdad, Cordoba and Chinese cities were far larger.

Who acts: Kyiv, Constantinople · What happens: be · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus» 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 (Kyiv, Constantinople), 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	_	4 century	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 century	det
3	11th	11th	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 century	amod
4	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	obl
5	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 one	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 cities	case
9	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 cities	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Europe	case
11	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 cities	amod
12	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 people	punct
14	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	18 people	advmod
15	40,000	40000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 people	nummod
16	–	–	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	17 50,000	case
17	50,000	50000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 40,000	nmod
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 larger	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 Constantinople	cc
21	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 larger	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Baghdad	punct
23	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Constantinople	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Cordoba	punct
25	Cordoba	cordoba	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Constantinople	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cities	cc
27	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 cities	amod
28	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 Constantinople	conj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 larger	cop
30	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 larger	advmod
31	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 one	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Kyiv	one and 40,000 people			century	of Europe's largest cities	tree rules
2	is	past	Constantinople and Baghdad and Cordoba and Chinese cities					far, large property	tree rules

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:041-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus.lesson:14.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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