The Maya, sentence 5
Many southern cities were abandoned around 1,100 years ago, probably because of droughts, wars and too many people for the land.
What happens: abandon around · To what, where: Many southern cities
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: 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cities | amod |
| 2 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cities | amod |
| 3 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 abandoned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 abandoned | aux:pass |
| 5 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | around | around | ADV | _ | 5 abandoned | advmod |
| 7 | 1,100 | 1,100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 abandoned | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 droughts | punct |
| 11 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 5 abandoned | advmod |
| 12 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 14 droughts | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 because | fixed |
| 14 | droughts | drought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 abandoned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wars | punct |
| 16 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 droughts | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 people | cc |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 many | advmod |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 people | amod |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 droughts | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 land | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 land | det |
| 23 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 people | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 abandoned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abandon around | past · passive | Many southern cities | because droughts and wars and many people for the land; ago, around, probably property | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Source |
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:5.
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 ×2. 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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