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title: The Black Death killed perhaps a third to a half of Europe's people… — The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages · tree and pragmatics
description: The Black Death killed perhaps a third to a half of Europe's people within a few years. Who acts: Black Death. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages, sentence 6

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The Black Death killed perhaps a third to a half of Europe's people within a few years.

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**Who acts:** Black Death · **What happens:** kill · **To what, where:** third

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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 (Black Death), 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:6
# text = The Black Death killed perhaps a third to a half of Europe's people within a few years.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Death	death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	within	within	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **kill** | past | the Black Death | a third |  |  | year | to a half of Europe's people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Theme |

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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:024-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages.lesson:6`.

**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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