--- title: In Baghdad's House of Wisdom scholars of many faiths translated Gree… — The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval wo… · tree and pragmatics description: In Baghdad's House of Wisdom scholars of many faiths translated Greek, Persian and Indian books into Arabic, much as a group of friends today might translate a game into every language so everyone can play it. Who acts: scholars, group, everyone. 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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 (scholars, group, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:022-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world.lesson:2 # text = In Baghdad's House of Wisdom scholars of many faiths translated Greek, Persian and Indian books into Arabic, much as a group of friends today might translate a game into every language so everyone can play it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 022-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 Baghdad Baghdad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 House house NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 Wisdom wisdom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 scholars scholar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 faiths faith NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 translated translate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 Greek Greek ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Persian Persian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 16 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Arabic Arabic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 much much ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 translate translate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 so so SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 38 nsubj _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **translate** | past | scholars of many faiths | Greek Indian books | | Baghdad's House Wisdom | | into Arabic *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent book=Patient into arabic=Result | | 2 | **translate** | might | a group of friends | a game | | | today | into every language *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent game=Patient into language=Result | | 3 | **play** | can | everyone | game | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:022-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world.lesson:2`. **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 ×1, 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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