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title: Mediterranean galleys were often rowed by prisoners, captives and en… — Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean · tree and pragmatics
description: Mediterranean galleys were often rowed by prisoners, captives and enslaved people, on both Christian and Muslim sides. Who acts: prisoners. A sentence of the lesson «Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean, sentence 16

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Mediterranean galleys were often rowed by prisoners, captives and enslaved people, on both Christian and Muslim sides.

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**Who acts:** prisoners · **What happens:** row, enslave · **To what, where:** Mediterranean galleys, Christian sides

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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 (prisoners), 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:16
# text = Mediterranean galleys were often rowed by prisoners, captives and enslaved people, on both Christian and Muslim sides.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	galleys	galley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	rowed	row	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	captives	captive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	enslaved	enslave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
16	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **row** | past · passive | prisoners and captives and enslaved people | Mediterranean galleys |  | both Christian sides |  | often *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Location |
| 2 | **enslave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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): 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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