The Maya, sentence 12
The Maya counted in twenties and had their own sign for zero, a shell, invented separately from India.
Who acts: Maya, twenties · What happens: count, have, invent, sign · To what, where: twenties, own sign, India
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, twenties), 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 counted | nsubj |
| 3 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 twenties | case |
| 5 | twenties | twenty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 counted | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 counted | conj |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sign | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sign | amod |
| 10 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 zero | case |
| 12 | zero | zero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sign | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shell | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shell | det |
| 15 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sign | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 invented | punct |
| 17 | invented | invent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 counted | conj |
| 18 | separately | separately | ADV | _ | 17 invented | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 India | case |
| 20 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 invented | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 counted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | past | the Maya | twenties | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the Maya not said here | twenties's own sign | for zero | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Patient | |||
| 3 | invent | past | the Maya not said here | India | separately property | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from india=Material | |||
| 4 | sign | twenties = twenty | for zero | nom sign «communication transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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:12.
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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