The Aztecs and the Inca, sentence 2
Their capital, Tenochtitlan, had causeways, canals, floating gardens and a huge market, and was bigger than most European cities of the time.
Who acts: capital · What happens: have, float, be · To what, where: causeways
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 (capital), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 capital | nmod:poss |
| 2 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Tenochtitlan | punct |
| 4 | Tenochtitlan | Tenochtitlan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 capital | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 capital | punct |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | causeways | causeway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 canals | punct |
| 9 | canals | canal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 causeways | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gardens | punct |
| 11 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 gardens | amod |
| 12 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 causeways | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 market | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 market | det |
| 15 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 market | amod |
| 16 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 causeways | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bigger | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bigger | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bigger | cop |
| 20 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 had | conj |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 cities | case |
| 22 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 cities | amod |
| 23 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cities | amod |
| 24 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bigger | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 time | det |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cities | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | 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 | have | past | people's capital | causeways and canals and floating gardens and a huge market | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent causeway=Patient | ||||
| 2 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | people's capital not said here | than most European cities of the time; big property | tree rules |
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:2.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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