Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty lands, wonders and falls, sentence 10

Real rulers lived ordinary lifetimes and passed power to others, and a change of ruler often changed a country's direction.

Who acts: Real rulers, change, ruler · What happens: live, pass, change · To what, where: ordinary lifetimes, power, others, direction

This is a sentence of the lesson «Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty lands, wonders and falls» 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 (Real rulers, change, ruler), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rulers	amod
2	rulers	ruler	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lifetimes	amod
5	lifetimes	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 passed	cc
7	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	conj
8	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passed	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 others	case
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 passed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 changed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 changed	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 change	det
14	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 changed	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 ruler	case
16	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 change	nmod
17	often	often	ADV	_	18 changed	advmod
18	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 country	det
20	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 direction	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 country	case
22	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 changed	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	live	past	Real rulers	ordinary lifetimes			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme lifetime=Location
2	pass	past	Real rulers not said here	power	others		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent power=Theme to other=Recipient
3	change	past	a change of ruler	a country's direction		often property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Patient
4	change		ruler				nom change «event intransitive»: of=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:080-games-vs-history-tech-trees-barbarians-empty-lands-wonders-and-falls.lesson:10.

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): R8-pos-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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