The Maya, sentence 2

Scholars have been able to read most of their writing only since the 1970s.

Who acts: Scholars · What happens: be, read, write · To what, where: most

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 (Scholars), 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	Scholars	scholar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 able	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 able	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 able	cop
4	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 read	mark
6	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 able	xcomp
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 read	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 writing	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 writing	nmod:poss
10	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 most	nmod
11	only	only	ADV	_	14 1970s	advmod
12	since	since	ADP	_	14 1970s	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 1970s	det
14	1970s	1970s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	6 read	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 able	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	Scholars			able property	tree rules
2	read	to-infinitive	Scholars not said here	most of Scholars's writing	since the 1970s		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Topic
3	write		Scholars = scholar				nom writing «act transitive»: poss=agent

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:2.

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): no change. 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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