The Maya, sentence 16
Rubber was a Native American discovery, made from the sap of trees.
Who acts: Rubber · What happens: be, make · To what, where: American discovery, sap
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 (Rubber), 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 | Rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 discovery | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 discovery | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 discovery | det |
| 4 | Native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 American | amod |
| 5 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 discovery | amod |
| 6 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 discovery | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 sap | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sap | det |
| 11 | sap | sap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 trees | case |
| 13 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sap | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 discovery | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Rubber | a American discovery | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a American discovery not said here | the sap of trees | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from sap=Material |
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:16.
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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