Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty lands, wonders and falls, sentence 5

Real inventions depended on needs, accidents and resources, not a fixed tree; some were even forgotten, like ways of making Roman concrete in western Europe, so history could have gone differently.

Who acts: Real inventions, ways, history · What happens: depend, fix, forget, make, go · To what, where: some, Roman concrete, western Europe

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 inventions, ways, history), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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