--- title: Homer's poems tell of the Greeks besieging Troy for ten years and of… — Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta · tree and pragmatics description: Homer's poems tell of the Greeks besieging Troy for ten years and of the hero Odysseus's long journey home; the wooden horse is a story from legend, not proven history. Who acts: poems, Greeks, wooden horse, hero. 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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 (poems, Greeks, wooden horse, hero), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:011-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta.lesson:9 # text = Homer's poems tell of the Greeks besieging Troy for ten years and of the hero Odysseus's long journey home; the wooden horse is a story from legend, not proven history. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 011-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Homer homer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 poems poem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Greeks Greek PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 8 besieging besiege VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 Troy Troy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 14 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det 16 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:compound 17 Odysseus Odysseus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 21 home home ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 proven prove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 amod _ _ 34 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Homer's poems | | | | | of the Greeks | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **besiege** | gerund | the Greeks *not said here* | Troy | | | year | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | the wooden horse | a story | | legend and proven history | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **prove** | participle | | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **journey** | | the hero | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:history:011-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta.lesson:9`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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