Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages, sentence 3

Many of these myths were spread by later writers, especially in the 1800s, who liked to make the past look silly and backward.

Who acts: later writers, past · What happens: spread, like, make, look · To what, where: Many, past

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 (later writers, past), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spread	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 myths	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 myths	det
4	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Many	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spread	aux:pass
6	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 writers	case
8	later	late	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 writers	amod
9	writers	writer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spread	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 1800s	punct
11	especially	especially	ADV	_	14 1800s	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 1800s	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 1800s	det
14	1800s	1800	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	9 writers	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 liked	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 liked	nsubj
17	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 writers	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 make	mark
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 liked	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 past	det
21	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obj
22	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 make	xcomp
23	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 look	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 backward	cc
25	backward	backward	ADV	_	23 silly	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spread	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spread	past · passive	later writers	Many of this myths		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
2	like	past	later writers			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	later writers not said here	the past		tree rules
4	look not said to happen	infinitive	the past not said here		silly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:3.

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): 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.

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