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The Aztecs and the Inca, sentence 1

Legend says they built their city where they saw an eagle on a cactus, on an island in a lake; that eagle is on Mexico's flag today.

Who acts: Legend, people, eagle · What happens: say, build, see, be · To what, where: city, eagle, cactus, flag · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Aztecs and the Inca» 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 (Legend, people, eagle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

nsubjnsubjccompnmod:possobjadvmodnsubjacl:relcldetobjcasedetoblpunctcasedetapposcasedetnmodpunctdetnsubjcopcasenmod:posscaseparataxisobl:unmarkedpunctrootLegendNOUNsaysVERBtheyPRONbuiltVERBtheirPRONcityNOUNwhereADVtheyPRONsawVERBanDETeagleNOUNonADPaDETcactusNOUN,PUNCTonADPanDETislandNOUNinADPaDETlakeNOUN;PUNCTthatDETeagleNOUNisAUXonADPMexicoPROPN'sPARTflagNOUNtodayNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1LegendlegendNOUNNumber=Sing2 saysnsubj
2sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs4 builtnsubj
4builtbuildVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 saysccomp
5theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 citynmod:poss
6citycityNOUNNumber=Sing4 builtobj
7wherewhereADVPronType=Rel9 sawadvmod
8theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs9 sawnsubj
9sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 cityacl:relcl
10anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 eagledet
11eagleeagleNOUNNumber=Sing9 sawobj
12ononADP_14 cactuscase
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 cactusdet
14cactuscactusNOUNNumber=Sing9 sawobl
15,,PUNCT_18 islandpunct
16ononADP_18 islandcase
17anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 islanddet
18islandislandNOUNNumber=Sing14 cactusappos
19ininADP_21 lakecase
20aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art21 lakedet
21lakelakeNOUNNumber=Sing18 islandnmod
22;;PUNCT_29 flagpunct
23thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem24 eagledet
24eagleeagleNOUNNumber=Sing29 flagnsubj
25isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin29 flagcop
26ononADP_29 flagcase
27MexicoMexicoPROPNNumber=Sing29 flagnmod:poss
28's'sPART_27 Mexicocase
29flagflagNOUNNumber=Sing2 saysparataxis
30todaytodayNOUNNumber=Sing29 flagobl:unmarked
31..PUNCT_2 sayspunct

Pragmatics

form
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teacher
kept the draft
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpresentLegendvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2buildpastpeoplepeople's cityvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset city=Product
3seepastpeoplea eaglea cactusvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eagle=Stimulus
4ispresentthat eagleMexico's flagtodaytree rules

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:019-the-aztecs-and-the-inca.lesson:1.

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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