The Aztecs and the Inca, sentence 7

They did not win alone, like a small team in a film beating a giant: tens of thousands of native allies and smallpox did most of it.

Who acts: neighbours, film, tens · What happens: not win, beat, do · To what, where: giant, most

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 (neighbours, film, tens), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 win	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 win	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 win	advmod
4	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 win	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 team	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 team	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 team	det
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 team	amod
10	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 win	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 film	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 film	det
13	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 team	nmod
14	beating	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 film	acl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 giant	det
16	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 beating	obj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 tens	punct
18	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 did	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 thousands	case
20	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tens	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 allies	case
22	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 allies	amod
23	allies	ally	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 thousands	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 smallpox	cc
25	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tens	conj
26	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 win	parataxis
27	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 did	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 most	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 win	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not win	past · do-support	neighbours = neighbour		like a small team in a film; alone property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	beat	gerund	a film not said here	a giant		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location giant=Theme
3	do	past	tens of thousands of native allies and smallpox	most of smallpox		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality

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:7.

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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