Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols, sentence 15

The Mongol empire was destructive in its conquests, but afterwards it kept trade routes safe, ran a postal system and allowed many religions.

Who acts: Mongol empire, empire · What happens: be, keep, run, allow · To what, where: conquests, trade routes, postal system, many religions

This is a sentence of the lesson «Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols» 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 (Mongol empire, empire), 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 empire	det
2	Mongol	mongol	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 empire	compound
3	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 destructive	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 destructive	cop
5	destructive	destructive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 conquests	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 conquests	nmod:poss
8	conquests	conquest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 destructive	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 kept	cc
11	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	13 kept	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	nsubj
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 destructive	conj
14	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 routes	compound
15	routes	route	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kept	obj
16	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 kept	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ran	punct
18	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 kept	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 system	det
20	postal	postal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 system	amod
21	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ran	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 allowed	cc
23	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 kept	conj
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 religions	amod
25	religions	religion	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 allowed	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 destructive	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Mongol empire		empire's conquests	destructive property	tree rules
2	keep	past	empire	trade routes		afterwards, safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent route=Theme
3	run	past	empire not said here	a postal system			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme system=Trajectory
4	allow	past	empire not said here	many religions			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent religion=Beneficiary

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:042-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols.lesson:15.

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, R7-rel-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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