The Aztecs and the Inca, sentence 20
A civil war and smallpox had already weakened the Inca, and Spain took over their empire.
Who acts: civil war, Spain · What happens: weaken, take over · To what, where: Inca, empire
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 (civil war, Spain), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 war | det |
| 2 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 war | amod |
| 3 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weakened | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 smallpox | cc |
| 5 | smallpox | smallpox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 war | conj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 weakened | aux |
| 7 | already | already | ADV | _ | 8 weakened | advmod |
| 8 | weakened | weaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Inca | det |
| 10 | Inca | Inca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 weakened | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 13 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 weakened | conj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 took | compound:prt |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 empire | nmod:poss |
| 17 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 weakened | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weaken | past · perfect | a civil war and smallpox | the Inca | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent inca=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take over | past | Spain | war's empire | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=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:20.
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): 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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