Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science, sentence 13

The Library of Alexandria in Egypt was founded around 300 BCE, was damaged by a fire in 48 BCE and probably declined slowly over centuries; the details are argued about.

Who acts: fire · What happens: found, damage, decline, argue · To what, where: Library, 48, details

This is a sentence of the lesson «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» 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 (fire), 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	2 Library	det
2	Library	Library	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 founded	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Alexandria	case
4	Alexandria	Alexandria	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Library	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Egypt	case
6	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Library	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 founded	aux:pass
8	founded	found	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	around	around	ADV	_	10 300	advmod
10	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 founded	obl:unmarked
11	BCE	BCE	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 300	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 damaged	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 damaged	aux:pass
14	damaged	damage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 founded	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 fire	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fire	det
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 damaged	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 48	case
19	48	48	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 damaged	obl
20	BCE	BCE	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 48	flat
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 declined	cc
22	probably	probably	ADV	_	23 declined	advmod
23	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 founded	conj
24	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	23 declined	advmod
25	over	over	ADP	_	26 centuries	case
26	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 declined	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 argued	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 details	det
29	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 argued	nsubj:pass
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 argued	aux:pass
31	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 founded	parataxis
32	about	about	ADV	_	31 argued	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 founded	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	found	past · passive		the Library of Alexandria in Egypt			300 obl:unmarked	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	damage	past · passive	a fire		48			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	decline	past				century	probably, slowly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	argue speech: disagree	present · passive		the details			about property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic

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:064-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science.lesson:13.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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