The Maya, sentence 19

Later Maya cities in the north, like Chichen Itza, kept going, and at the spring and autumn equinox a shadow snake seems to slide down the stairs of its great pyramid.

Who acts: Maya cities, shadow snake · What happens: keep, go, seem, slide down · To what, where: stairs

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 cities, shadow snake), 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	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 cities	advmod
2	Maya	Maya	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cities	compound
3	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 kept	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 north	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 north	det
6	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cities	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Itza	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 Itza	case
9	Chichen	Chichen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Itza	compound
10	Itza	Itza	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cities	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cities	punct
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 kept	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seems	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 seems	cc
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 spring	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 equinox	det
18	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seems	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 equinox	cc
20	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spring	conj
21	equinox	equinox	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spring	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 snake	det
23	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 snake	compound
24	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seems	nsubj
25	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 kept	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 slide	mark
27	slide	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 seems	xcomp
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 slide	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stairs	det
30	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 slide	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 pyramid	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 pyramid	nmod:poss
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pyramid	amod
34	pyramid	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stairs	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 kept	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	keep	past	Maya cities in the north like Chichen Itza			tree rules
2	go	gerund	Maya cities in the north like Chichen Itza not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seem	present	a shadow snake		spring	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	slide down	to-infinitive	a shadow snake not said here	the stairs of snake's great pyramid		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:19.

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 ×3, 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.

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