The Aztecs and the Inca, sentence 12
In 1519 Hernán Cortés arrived with a few hundred men, and with tens of thousands of native allies and smallpox spreading he conquered Tenochtitlan in 1521.
Who acts: Hernán · What happens: arrive, conquer · To what, where: 1519, Tenochtitlan, 1521
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 (Hernán), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1519 | case |
| 2 | 1519 | 1519 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 arrived | obl |
| 3 | Hernán | Hernán | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | Cortés | Cortés | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Hernán | flat |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 men | amod |
| 9 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 men | nummod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 arrived | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 conquered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 conquered | cc |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 tens | case |
| 14 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 conquered | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 thousands | case |
| 16 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tens | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 allies | case |
| 18 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 allies | amod |
| 19 | allies | ally | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 thousands | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 spreading | cc |
| 21 | smallpox | smallpox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spreading | compound |
| 22 | spreading | spreading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tens | conj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 conquered | nsubj |
| 24 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | conj |
| 25 | Tenochtitlan | Tenochtitlan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 conquered | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 1521 | case |
| 27 | 1521 | 1521 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 conquered | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Hernán | 1519 | with a few hundred men | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | conquer | past | Hernán | Tenochtitlan | 1521 | with tens of thousands of native allies and smallpox spreading | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tenochtitlan=Patient with ten=Instrument |
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:12.
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): R2-punct-next ×1. 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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