The Aztecs and the Inca, sentence 10
Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, was built on a lake with causeways, canals, floating gardens and a huge market, and it was bigger than most European cities of the time; Mexico City stands on its ruins.
Who acts: market, Mexico City · What happens: build, float, be, stand, ruin · To what, where: Tenochtitlan, lake, ruins
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 (market, Mexico City), 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 | Tenochtitlan | Tenochtitlan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 built | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 capital | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 capital | det |
| 4 | Aztec | Aztec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 capital | compound |
| 5 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tenochtitlan | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tenochtitlan | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 built | aux:pass |
| 8 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 lake | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lake | det |
| 11 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 built | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 causeways | case |
| 13 | causeways | causeway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lake | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 canals | punct |
| 15 | canals | canal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 causeways | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gardens | punct |
| 17 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 gardens | amod |
| 18 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 causeways | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 market | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 market | det |
| 21 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 market | amod |
| 22 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 causeways | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bigger | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bigger | cc |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 bigger | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 bigger | cop |
| 27 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 built | conj |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 31 cities | case |
| 29 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 cities | amod |
| 30 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 cities | amod |
| 31 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 bigger | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 time | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 time | det |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cities | nmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 stands | punct |
| 36 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 City | compound |
| 37 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 stands | nsubj |
| 38 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 built | parataxis |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 ruins | case |
| 40 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 ruins | nmod:poss |
| 41 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 stands | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 built | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | Tenochtitlan | a lake with causeways and canals and floating gardens and a huge market | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on lake=Source | ||||
| 2 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | market | than most European cities of the time; big property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stand | present | Mexico City | market's ruins | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ruin=Location | ||||
| 5 | ruin | market | nom ruin «state 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:019-the-aztecs-and-the-inca.lesson:10.
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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