--- title: Venice was a merchant republic ruled by an elected Doge (a duke chos… — Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean · tree and pragmatics description: Venice was a merchant republic ruled by an elected Doge (a duke chosen for life) and councils of noble families. Who acts: Venice. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Venice), 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:6 # text = Venice was a merchant republic ruled by an elected Doge (a duke chosen for life) and councils of noble families. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Venice Venice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 republic republic NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 ruled rule VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 10 Doge doge PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl:agent _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obl:agent|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 duke duke NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 14 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 councils council NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 noble noble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Venice | a merchant republic | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **rule** | participle | | a merchant republic *not said here* | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **elect** | participle | | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **choose** | participle | | a duke *not said here* | | | | for life | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for life=Beneficiary | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:geography:032-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean.lesson:6`. **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 ×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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