--- title: Once a year Athenians could vote to send a too-powerful politician a… — Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths a… · tree and pragmatics description: Once a year Athenians could vote to send a too-powerful politician away for ten years by scratching his name on a bit of broken pottery called an ostrakon; this is called ostracism. Who acts: Athenians, broken pottery, Athens. 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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 (Athenians, broken pottery, Athens), 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:9 # text = Once a year Athenians could vote to send a too-powerful politician away for ten years by scratching his name on a bit of broken pottery called an ostrakon; this is called ostracism. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 Once once ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 Athenians Athenian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 10 too too ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 politician politician NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 14 away away ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 18 by by SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 scratching scratch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 broken broken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 pottery pottery NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 acl _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 ostrakon ostrakon NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 32 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 35 ostracism ostracism NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 xcomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **vote** | could | Athenians | | | | year | | tree rules | | 2 | **send** | to-infinitive | Athenians *not said here* | a powerful politician | | | year | away *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent politician=Theme | | 3 | **scratch** | gerund | Athenians *not said here* | Athens's name | | a bit of broken pottery | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme on bit=Destination | | 4 | **call** | participle | broken pottery *not said here* | a ostrakon | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ostrakon=Recipient | | 5 | **call** | present · passive | | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 6 | **name** | | Athens | | | | | | nom name «communication 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:012-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers.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): R2-punct-next ×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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