--- title: Alexander of Macedon, taught by Aristotle, conquered a huge empire f… — Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths a… · tree and pragmatics description: Alexander of Macedon, taught by Aristotle, conquered a huge empire from Greece to Egypt and India before he died at 32, and founded Alexandria in Egypt. Who acts: Alexander. 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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 (Alexander), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:012-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers.lesson:19 # text = Alexander of Macedon, taught by Aristotle, conquered a huge empire from Greece to Egypt and India before he died at 32, and founded Alexandria in Egypt. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 012-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers.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 Alexander Alexander PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Macedon Macedon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 taught teach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl:relcl _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Aristotle Aristotle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl:agent _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 9 conquered conquer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 empire empire NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Greece Greece PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 before before SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 32 32 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 founded found VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 27 Alexandria Alexandria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | participle | | Alexander of Macedon *not said here* | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **conquer** | past | Alexander of Macedon | a huge empire | | Greece | | to Egypt and India | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=Patient | | 3 | **die** | past | Alexander | | | 32 | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **found** | past | Alexander of Macedon *not said here* | Alexandria | | Egypt | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alexandria=Patient | 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:012-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers.lesson:19`. **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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