The Aztecs and the Inca, sentence 8

The Aztecs, or Mexica, were a wandering people who settled in the Valley of Mexico about 700 years ago and in about 200 years built one of the largest empires in the Americas.

Who acts: Aztecs, wandering people · What happens: wander, be, settle, build · To what, where: wandering people, Valley, one

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, wandering 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Aztecs	det
2	Aztecs	Aztec	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 people	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Mexica	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 Mexica	cc
5	Mexica	Mexica	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Aztecs	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Mexica	punct
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 people	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 people	det
9	wandering	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 settled	nsubj
12	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 people	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 Valley	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Valley	det
15	Valley	Valley	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 settled	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Mexico	case
17	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Valley	nmod
18	about	about	ADV	_	19 700	advmod
19	700	700	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 years	nummod
20	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ago	obl:unmarked
21	ago	ago	ADV	_	12 settled	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 built	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 years	case
24	about	about	ADV	_	25 200	advmod
25	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 years	nummod
26	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 built	obl
27	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 settled	conj
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 built	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 empires	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 empires	det
31	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 empires	amod
32	empires	empire	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 one	nmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 Americas	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Americas	det
35	Americas	Americas	PROPN	Number=Plur	32 empires	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 people	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	the Aztecs or Mexica	a wandering people				tree rules
3	settle	past	a wandering people		the Valley of Mexico		ago property	vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Location
4	build	past	a wandering people not said here	one of the largest empires in the Americas		year		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product

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:8.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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