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title: Constantinople, later called Istanbul, became the Ottoman capital an… — Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean · tree and pragmatics
description: Constantinople, later called Istanbul, became the Ottoman capital and controlled the straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. Who acts: Constantinople. A sentence of the lesson «Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean, sentence 11

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Constantinople, later called Istanbul, became the Ottoman capital and controlled the straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.

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**Who acts:** Constantinople · **What happens:** call, become, control · **To what, where:** Constantinople, Ottoman capital, straits · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean» of the geography 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 (Constantinople), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:032-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean.lesson:11
# text = Constantinople, later called Istanbul, became the Ottoman capital and controlled the straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 032-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
5	Istanbul	Istanbul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Ottoman	ottoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	controlled	control	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	straits	strait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	between	between	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  | Constantinople *not said here* |  |  |  | late *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **become** | past | Constantinople | the Ottoman capital |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **control** | past | Constantinople *not said here* | the straits |  |  |  | between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strait=Theme |

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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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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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