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title: After the plague so many workers had died that survivors could ask f… — The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages · tree and pragmatics
description: After the plague so many workers had died that survivors could ask for higher pay, and many peasants won more freedom. Who acts: many workers, survivors, many peasants. A sentence of the lesson «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages, sentence 13

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After the plague so many workers had died that survivors could ask for higher pay, and many peasants won more freedom.

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**Who acts:** many workers, survivors, many peasants · **What happens:** die, ask, win · **To what, where:** more freedom

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» 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 (many workers, survivors, many peasants), 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:13
# text = After the plague so many workers had died that survivors could ask for higher pay, and many peasants won more freedom.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	plague	plague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	survivors	survivor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **die** | past · perfect | many workers |  |  |  | after the plague |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | could | survivors |  |  |  |  | for higher pay | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **win** | past | many peasants | more freedom |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Eventuality |

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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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**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): 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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