Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages, sentence 19

"Dark Ages" was a name used by later writers, mostly because fewer written records survive; it was a time of art and learning, like the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Sutton Hoo treasures.

Who acts: Dark, fewer written records, name · What happens: be, use, write, survive · To what, where: name, time

This is a sentence of the lesson «Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages» of the myths 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 (Dark, fewer written records, name), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Dark	punct
2	Dark	Dark	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 name	nsubj
3	Ages	Age	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Dark	flat
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Ages	punct
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 name	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 name	det
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 name	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 writers	case
10	later	late	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 writers	amod
11	writers	writer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 used	obl:agent
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 survive	punct
13	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	18 survive	advmod
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 survive	mark
15	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 records	amod
16	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 records	amod
17	records	record	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 survive	nsubj
18	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 used	advcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 time	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 time	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 time	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 name	parataxis
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 art	case
25	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 time	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 learning	cc
27	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 art	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Gospels	punct
29	like	like	ADP	_	32 Gospels	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Gospels	det
31	Lindisfarne	Lindisfarne	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Gospels	compound
32	Gospels	gospel	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 learning	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 treasures	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 treasures	det
35	Sutton	Sutton	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 treasures	compound
36	Hoo	hoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 treasures	compound
37	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 Gospels	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 name	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dark	a name		tree rules
2	use	participle		a name not said here		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	write	participle				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	survive	present	fewer written records		mostly property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	name	a time	of art and learning	tree rules

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:myths:018-vikings-knights-and-the-middle-ages.lesson:19.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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