The Maya, sentence 13
The Maya had very accurate calendars that tracked the sun, the moon and Venus, which helped them plan farming and festivals.
Who acts: Maya, accurate calendars, Venus, sun · What happens: have, track, help, plan · To what, where: accurate calendars, sun, farming
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, accurate calendars, Venus, sun), 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 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 accurate | advmod |
| 5 | accurate | accurate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 calendars | amod |
| 6 | calendars | calendar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 tracked | nsubj |
| 8 | tracked | track | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 calendars | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tracked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 moon | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 moon | det |
| 13 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sun | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Venus | cc |
| 15 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 moon | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 helped | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 helped | nsubj |
| 18 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Venus | acl:relcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 helped | obj |
| 20 | plan | plan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 helped | xcomp |
| 21 | farming | farming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 plan | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 festivals | cc |
| 23 | festivals | festival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 farming | conj |
| 24 | . | . | 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 | accurate calendars | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calendar=Patient | ||||
| 2 | track | past | accurate calendars | the sun and the moon and Venus | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help | past | Venus | sun | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | plan | infinitive | sun not said here | farming and festivals | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farming=Topic |
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:13.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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