The Aztecs and the Inca, sentence 16
The Inca kept records with quipu, strings with knots of different colours and positions, to count people, taxes and goods.
Who acts: Inca · What happens: keep, count · To what, where: records, people
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), 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 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kept | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 quipu | case |
| 6 | quipu | quipu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 records | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 quipu | punct |
| 8 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 quipu | appos |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 knots | case |
| 10 | knots | knot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 strings | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 colours | case |
| 12 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 colours | amod |
| 13 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 knots | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 positions | cc |
| 15 | positions | position | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 colours | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 count | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 count | mark |
| 18 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 kept | advcl |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 count | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 taxes | punct |
| 21 | taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 people | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 goods | cc |
| 23 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 19 people | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the Inca | records | with quipu | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Theme | |||
| 2 | count | to-infinitive | the Inca not said here | people and taxes and goods | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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:16.
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): R5-strong ×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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