Latin America and the Caribbean, sentence 5

Picture Mexico City today: its cathedral stands on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital on an island in a lake, which the Spanish conquered in 1521.

Who acts: you, cathedral, Spanish · What happens: picture, stand, 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 (you, cathedral, 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
3	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Mexico	flat
4	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obl:unmarked
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cathedral	nmod:poss
7	cathedral	cathedral	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stands	nsubj
8	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 ruins	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ruins	det
11	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stands	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Tenochtitlan	case
13	Tenochtitlan	Tenochtitlan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 ruins	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 capital	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 capital	det
16	Aztec	Aztec	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 capital	compound
17	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Tenochtitlan	appos
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 island	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 island	det
20	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 capital	nmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 lake	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 lake	det
23	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 island	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Spanish	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 conquered	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Spanish	det
27	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 conquered	nsubj
28	conquered	conquer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 island	acl:relcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 1521	case
30	1521	1521	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 conquered	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	Mexico		today	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mexico=Theme
2	stand	present	population's cathedral		the ruins of Tenochtitlan		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ruin=Location
3	conquer	past	the Spanish	a island in a lake	1521		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
4	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:5.

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): R5-strong ×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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