The Maya, sentence 15

The Maya played a ball game with a heavy rubber ball, hitting it with their hips through stone rings high on a wall, and the game had religious meaning.

Who acts: Maya, game · What happens: play, hit, have · To what, where: ball game, Maya, stone rings, religious meaning

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, game), 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 played	nsubj
3	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 game	det
5	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 game	compound
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 played	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 ball	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ball	det
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ball	amod
10	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ball	compound
11	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 played	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hitting	punct
13	hitting	hit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 played	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hitting	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 hips	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hips	nmod:poss
17	hips	hip	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hitting	obl
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 rings	case
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rings	compound
20	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hitting	obl
21	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rings	amod
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 wall	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 wall	det
24	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 high	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 had	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 game	det
28	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 played	conj
30	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 meaning	amod
31	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 played	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	past	the Maya	a ball game		with a heavy rubber ball	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent game=Theme with ball=Co-Agent
2	hit	gerund	the Maya not said here	Maya	stone rings	with calendars's hips	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with hip=Instrument
3	have	past	the game	religious meaning			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient

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:15.

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. 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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