--- title: Troy was a real city in what is now Turkey, but there is no evidence… — Ancient times and famous stories · tree and pragmatics description: Troy was a real city in what is now Turkey, but there is no evidence for the wooden horse, which comes from ancient poems and legends. Who acts: Troy, real city, evidence, wooden horse. 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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 (Troy, real city, evidence, wooden horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson:10 # text = Troy was a real city in what is now Turkey, but there is no evidence for the wooden horse, which comes from ancient poems and legends. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.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): no change 1 Troy Troy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 10 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 10 Turkey Turkey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 14 expl _ _ 14 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 16 det _ _ 16 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 poems poem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 legends legend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Troy | a real city | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | a real city | | | Turkey | now | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | present | no evidence for the wooden horse | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **come** | present | the wooden horse | | | ancient poems and legends | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from poem=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. 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