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title: From 1096 European Christians fought the Crusades to control Jerusal… — Castles, knights and cathedrals · tree and pragmatics
description: From 1096 European Christians fought the Crusades to control Jerusalem, a city holy to Christians, Jews and Muslims, and Muslim leaders such as Saladin fought back and retook it in 1187. Who acts: European Christians, Muslim leaders. A sentence of the lesson «Castles, knights and cathedrals» of the 
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# Castles, knights and cathedrals, sentence 18

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From 1096 European Christians fought the Crusades to control Jerusalem, a city holy to Christians, Jews and Muslims, and Muslim leaders such as Saladin fought back and retook it in 1187.

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**Who acts:** European Christians, Muslim leaders · **What happens:** fight, control, fight back, retake · **To what, where:** Crusades, 1096, Jerusalem, city, 1187

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Castles, knights and cathedrals» of the history 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 (European Christians, Muslim leaders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:021-castles-knights-and-cathedrals.lesson:18
# text = From 1096 European Christians fought the Crusades to control Jerusalem, a city holy to Christians, Jews and Muslims, and Muslim leaders such as Saladin fought back and retook it in 1187.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 021-castles-knights-and-cathedrals.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1096	1096	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
4	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Crusades	crusade	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	control	control	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl
10	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	27	case	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	Saladin	Saladin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	retook	retake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	1187	1187	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	obl	_	_
35	.	.	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 | **fight** | past | European Christians | the Crusades |  | 1096 |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crusade=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **control** | to-infinitive | European Christians *not said here* | Jerusalem |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jerusalem=Theme |
| 3 | **fight back** | past | Muslim leaders such Saladin |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **retake** | past | Muslim leaders such Saladin *not said here* | city |  | 1187 |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:021-castles-knights-and-cathedrals.lesson:18`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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