--- title: Medieval remedies such as herbs, bleeding and sweet flowers mostly d… — The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages · tree and pragmatics description: Medieval remedies such as herbs, bleeding and sweet flowers mostly did not work, but some towns kept travellers apart for forty days, which is where the word quarantine comes from, from the Italian word for forty. Who acts: sweet flowers, towns, forty days, word quarantine. 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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 (sweet flowers, towns, forty days, word quarantine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:024-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages.lesson:11 # text = Medieval remedies such as herbs, bleeding and sweet flowers mostly did not work, but some towns kept travellers apart for forty days, which is where the word quarantine comes from, from the Italian word for forty. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 024-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages.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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Medieval medieval ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 remedies remedy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 5 case _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 3 fixed _ _ 5 herbs herb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 bleeding bleeding NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 9 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 11 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 18 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 travellers traveller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 apart apart ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 24 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 quarantine quarantine NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl:relcl _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 Italian Italian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 41 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **work** | past · do-support | sweet flowers | | | | | mostly *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **keep** | past | some towns | travellers | | | day | apart *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traveller=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | forty days | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **come from** | present | word quarantine | | | the Italian word for forty | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial\_Location | 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:024-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages.lesson:11`. **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, R5-strong ×1, 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. 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