The Maya, sentence 4
That is what happened when Spanish priests burned Maya books; only four survive, and a huge amount of knowledge was lost for ever.
Who acts: That, Spanish priests, four · What happens: be, burn, survive, lose, amount · To what, where: Maya books, huge amount, knowledge
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 (That, Spanish priests, four), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | cop |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 burned | advmod |
| 6 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 priests | amod |
| 7 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 burned | nsubj |
| 8 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | advcl |
| 9 | Maya | Maya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 books | compound |
| 10 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 burned | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 survive | punct |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 four | advmod |
| 13 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 survive | nsubj |
| 14 | survive | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lost | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lost | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 amount | det |
| 18 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 amount | amod |
| 19 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 knowledge | case |
| 21 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 amount | nmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lost | aux:pass |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 happened | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 ever | case |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 lost | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | happen property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burn | past | Spanish priests | Maya books | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 3 | survive | present | four | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lose | past · passive | a huge amount of knowledge | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | amount | knowledge | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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:4.
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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