The Maya, sentence 10
The Maya had a full writing system of glyphs, carved on stone and painted in folding books made of bark, and it has mostly been deciphered since the 1970s.
Who acts: Maya · What happens: have, carve, paint, make, decipher · To what, where: full writing system, glyphs, stone, folding books, Maya
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Maya» 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 (Maya), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Maya | det |
| 2 | Maya | Maya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 system | det |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 system | amod |
| 6 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 system | compound |
| 7 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 glyphs | case |
| 9 | glyphs | glyph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 system | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carved | punct |
| 11 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 glyphs | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 stone | case |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carved | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 painted | cc |
| 15 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 carved | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 books | case |
| 17 | folding | folding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 books | compound |
| 18 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 painted | obl |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 books | acl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 bark | case |
| 21 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 deciphered | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 deciphered | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 deciphered | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 deciphered | aux |
| 26 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 28 deciphered | advmod |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 deciphered | aux:pass |
| 28 | deciphered | decipher | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | conj |
| 29 | since | since | ADP | _ | 31 1970s | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 1970s | det |
| 31 | 1970s | 1970s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 28 deciphered | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | 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 | have | past | the Maya | a full writing system of glyphs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent system=Patient | ||||
| 2 | carve | participle | glyphs not said here | stone | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on stone=Destination | ||||
| 3 | paint | participle | folding books | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in book=Destination | |||||
| 4 | make | participle | folding books not said here | of bark | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | decipher | present · perfect · passive | Maya | since the 1970s | mostly property | tree rules |
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:history:018-the-maya.lesson:10.
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, R7-rel-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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