The Aztecs and the Inca, sentence 18
Potatoes first came from the Andes and were later taken to Europe; the Andes peoples grew thousands of kinds of potatoes, freeze-dried them in the mountain cold, and kept llamas and alpacas for wool and carrying loads; the Inca had no horses and no carts with wheels, so people and llamas carried everything along the roads.
Who acts: Potatoes, Andes peoples, Inca, people · What happens: come, take, grow, freeze, dry, keep · To what, where: Andes, Europe, thousands, people, mountain, llamas
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 (Potatoes, Andes peoples, Inca, people), 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 | Potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Andes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Andes | det |
| 6 | Andes | Andes | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 taken | cc |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 taken | aux:pass |
| 9 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 taken | advmod |
| 10 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Europe | case |
| 12 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 taken | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 peoples | det |
| 15 | Andes | Andes | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 peoples | compound |
| 16 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 grew | nsubj |
| 17 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 18 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 grew | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 kinds | case |
| 20 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 thousands | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 potatoes | case |
| 22 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 kinds | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 dried | punct |
| 24 | freeze | freeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 dried | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 freeze | punct |
| 26 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 grew | conj |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 dried | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 mountain | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 mountain | det |
| 30 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dried | obl |
| 31 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 mountain | amod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 kept | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 kept | cc |
| 34 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | parataxis |
| 35 | llamas | llama | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 kept | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 alpacas | cc |
| 37 | alpacas | alpaca | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 llamas | conj |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 wool | case |
| 39 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 kept | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 carrying | cc |
| 41 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 kept | conj |
| 42 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 carrying | obj |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 had | punct |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Inca | det |
| 45 | Inca | Inca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 had | nsubj |
| 46 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 47 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 48 horses | det |
| 48 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 had | obj |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 carts | cc |
| 50 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 51 carts | det |
| 51 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 horses | conj |
| 52 | with | with | ADP | _ | 53 wheels | case |
| 53 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 carts | nmod |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 carried | punct |
| 55 | so | so | ADV | _ | 59 carried | advmod |
| 56 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 59 carried | nsubj |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 llamas | cc |
| 58 | llamas | llama | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 people | conj |
| 59 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 60 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 59 carried | obj |
| 61 | along | along | ADP | _ | 63 roads | case |
| 62 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 roads | det |
| 63 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 59 carried | obl |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Potatoes | the Andes | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from andes=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | take | past · passive | Potatoes not said here | Europe | late property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: to europe=Result | |||
| 3 | grow | past | the Andes peoples | thousands of kinds of potatoes | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thousand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | freeze | infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | dry | participle | the Andes peoples not said here | people | the mountain | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result | |||
| 6 | keep | participle | llamas and alpacas | for wool | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent llama=Theme | ||||
| 7 | carry | gerund | loads | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme | |||||
| 8 | have | past | the Inca | no horses and no carts with wheels | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 9 | carry | past | people and llamas | everything | along the roads | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=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.
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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, R5-strong ×2, 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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