The Aztecs and the Inca, sentence 3

The Aztecs believed the sun needed offerings and sacrificed people, often war captives, so their neighbours feared and hated them.

Who acts: Aztecs, sun, neighbours · What happens: believe, need, sacrifice, fear, hate · To what, where: offerings, people · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Aztecs, sun, neighbours), 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 Aztecs	det
2	Aztecs	Aztec	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 believed	nsubj
3	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needed	nsubj
6	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 believed	ccomp
7	offerings	offering	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 needed	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sacrificed	cc
9	sacrificed	sacrifice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 needed	conj
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sacrificed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 captives	punct
12	often	often	ADV	_	14 captives	advmod
13	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 captives	compound
14	captives	captive	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 people	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 feared	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 feared	advmod
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 neighbours	nmod:poss
18	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 feared	nsubj
19	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 believed	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hated	cc
21	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 feared	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hated	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 believed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	believe	past	the Aztecs		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	need	past	the sun	offerings	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot offering=Theme
3	sacrifice	past	the sun not said here	people	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent people=Theme
4	fear	past	people's neighbours		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	hate	past	people's neighbours not said here	people	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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:3.

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): R8-pos-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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