How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline, sentence 24

Progress is not a straight climb: after the western Roman Empire broke up, towns in western Europe shrank for centuries, while cities in China and the Islamic world grew.

Who acts: Progress, western Roman Empire, towns, cities · What happens: not be, break up, shrink, grow · To what, where: straight climb

This is a sentence of the lesson «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» 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 (Progress, western Roman Empire, towns, cities), 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	Progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climb	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 climb	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 climb	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 climb	det
5	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 climb	amod
6	climb	climb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 broke	punct
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 broke	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Empire	det
10	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Empire	amod
11	Roman	Roman	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Empire	compound
12	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 broke	nsubj
13	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 shrank	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 broke	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 towns	punct
16	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 shrank	nsubj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 Europe	case
18	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Europe	amod
19	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 towns	nmod
20	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 climb	parataxis
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 centuries	case
22	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 shrank	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 grew	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 grew	mark
25	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 grew	nsubj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 China	case
27	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 cities	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 world	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
30	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 world	compound
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 China	conj
32	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 shrank	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 climb	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not is a	present	Progress	a straight climb		tree rules
2	break up	past	the western Roman Empire			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	shrink	past	towns in western Europe		century	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	grow	past	cities in China and the Islamic world			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:24.

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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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