The Maya, sentence 11
Spanish priests burned many Maya books, thinking them dangerous, and only four are known to survive.
Who acts: Spanish priests · What happens: burn, think, know, survive · To what, where: many Maya books, books, four
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 (Spanish priests), 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 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 priests | amod |
| 2 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 burned | nsubj |
| 3 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 books | amod |
| 5 | Maya | Maya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 books | compound |
| 6 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 burned | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thinking | punct |
| 8 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 burned | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thinking | obj |
| 10 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thinking | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 known | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 known | cc |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 four | advmod |
| 14 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 known | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 known | aux:pass |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 burned | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 survive | mark |
| 18 | survive | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 known | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past | Spanish priests | many Maya books | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | Spanish priests not said here | books = book | dangerous property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | |||
| 3 | know | present · passive | four | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | survive | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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.
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