Latin America and the Caribbean, sentence 11
Mexico City was built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital on an island in Lake Texcoco, which the Spanish conquered in 1521.
Who acts: Spanish · What happens: build, conquer, ruin · To what, where: Mexico, ruins, island, 1521, Tenochtitlan
This is a sentence of the lesson «Latin America and the Caribbean» of the geography 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 (Spanish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 built | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mexico | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | aux:pass |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ruins | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ruins | det |
| 7 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 built | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Tenochtitlan | case |
| 9 | Tenochtitlan | Tenochtitlan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ruins | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 capital | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 capital | det |
| 12 | Aztec | Aztec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 capital | compound |
| 13 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Tenochtitlan | appos |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 island | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 island | det |
| 16 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Lake | case |
| 18 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 island | nmod |
| 19 | Texcoco | Texcoco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Lake | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 conquered | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 conquered | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Spanish | det |
| 23 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 conquered | nsubj |
| 24 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 island | acl:relcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 1521 | case |
| 26 | 1521 | 1521 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 conquered | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | Mexico | the ruins of Tenochtitlan | on a island in Lake | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on ruin=Source | |||
| 2 | conquer | past | the Spanish | a island in Lake | 1521 | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | |||
| 3 | ruin | Tenochtitlan | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient |
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, 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:geography:014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.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): no change. 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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