Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news, sentence 6
In 1299 the money-changers' guild of Florence banned the new digits in account books, fearing they were easy to alter; good ideas can take centuries to win.
Who acts: guild, digits, good ideas · What happens: ban, fear, be, alter, take, win · To what, where: new digits, 1299 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, chess and news» 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 (guild, digits, good ideas), 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 1299 | case |
| 2 | 1299 | 1299 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 banned | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 changers | det |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 changers | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 money | punct |
| 6 | changers | changer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 guild | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 changers | case |
| 8 | guild | guild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 banned | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Florence | case |
| 10 | Florence | Florence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 guild | nmod |
| 11 | banned | ban | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 digits | det |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 digits | amod |
| 14 | digits | digit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 banned | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 books | case |
| 16 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 books | compound |
| 17 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 digits | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fearing | punct |
| 19 | fearing | fear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 banned | advcl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 easy | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 easy | cop |
| 22 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fearing | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 alter | mark |
| 24 | alter | alter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 easy | xcomp |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ideas | amod |
| 27 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 take | nsubj |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 take | aux |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 banned | parataxis |
| 30 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 take | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 win | mark |
| 32 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 take | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 banned | 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 | ban | past | the money changers's guild of Florence | the new digits | 1299 | in account books | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer digit=Theme | ||
| 2 | fear | gerund | the money changers's guild of Florence not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | digits = digit | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | alter | to-infinitive | digits = digit not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | take | can | good ideas | century | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | win | to-infinitive | good ideas not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.lesson:6.
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): no change. 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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