The Maya, sentence 9

Maya cities like Tikal and Palenque had tall stone pyramids with temples on top, palaces and plazas, and some are still being discovered with lasers fired from aeroplanes.

Who acts: Maya cities · What happens: have, discover, fire · To what, where: tall stone pyramids, some, lasers, aeroplanes

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), 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	Maya	Maya	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cities	compound
2	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 Tikal	case
4	Tikal	Tikal	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cities	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Palenque	cc
6	Palenque	Palenque	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Tikal	conj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pyramids	amod
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pyramids	compound
10	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 temples	case
12	temples	temple	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pyramids	nmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 top	case
14	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 temples	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 palaces	punct
16	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 temples	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 plazas	cc
18	plazas	plaza	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 temples	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 discovered	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 discovered	cc
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 discovered	nsubj:pass
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 discovered	aux:pass
23	still	still	ADV	_	25 discovered	advmod
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 discovered	aux:pass
25	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 had	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 lasers	case
27	lasers	laser	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 discovered	obl
28	fired	fire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 lasers	acl
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 aeroplanes	case
30	aeroplanes	aeroplane	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fired	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Maya cities like Tikal and Palenque	tall stone pyramids			with temples on top and palaces and plazas	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pyramid=Patient
2	discover	present · passive		some		still	with lasers	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	fire	participle		lasers not said here	aeroplanes			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from aeroplane=Initial_Location

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:9.

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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