The Maya, sentence 14
The Maya calendar did not predict the end of the world in 2012; one long cycle simply ended and a new one began.
Who acts: Maya calendar, one long cycle, new one · What happens: not predict, end, begin · To what, where: end, 2012
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 calendar, one long cycle, new one), 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 | 3 calendar | det |
| 2 | Maya | Maya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 calendar | compound |
| 3 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 predict | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 predict | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 predict | advmod |
| 6 | predict | predict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 predict | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 2012 | case |
| 13 | 2012 | 2012 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 predict | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 ended | punct |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 cycle | nummod |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cycle | amod |
| 17 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ended | nsubj |
| 18 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 19 ended | advmod |
| 19 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 predict | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 began | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 one | det |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 one | amod |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 began | nsubj |
| 24 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 ended | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 predict | 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 | not predict | past · do-support | the Maya calendar | the end of the world | 2012 | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot end=Topic | |||
| 2 | end | past | one long cycle | simply property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | a new one | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:14.
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): R2-punct-next ×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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/18-the-maya/14/