The Aztecs and the Inca, sentence 15
The Inca built about 40,000 kilometres of roads with rope bridges over gorges, and relay runners carried messages very fast.
Who acts: Inca, relay runners · What happens: build, carry · To what, where: 40,000 kilometres, messages
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 (Inca, relay runners), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Inca | det |
| 2 | Inca | Inca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 built | nsubj |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 40,000 | advmod |
| 5 | 40,000 | 40000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 kilometres | nummod |
| 6 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 built | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 roads | case |
| 8 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kilometres | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 bridges | case |
| 10 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bridges | compound |
| 11 | bridges | bridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 roads | nmod |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 gorges | case |
| 13 | gorges | gorge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bridges | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 carried | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 carried | cc |
| 16 | relay | relay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 runners | compound |
| 17 | runners | runner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 carried | nsubj |
| 18 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | conj |
| 19 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 carried | obj |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 fast | advmod |
| 21 | fast | fast | ADV | _ | 18 carried | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | the Inca | 40,000 kilometres of roads with rope bridges over gorges | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilometre=Product | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | relay runners | messages | fast property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme |
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:15.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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