The Mongols, sentence 0
On the wide grasslands of Asia, called the steppe, the Mongols lived as nomads in round felt tents called gers, herding horses, sheep and goats, and children learned to ride at three or four.
Who acts: Mongols, felt tents, children · What happens: call, live, feel, herd, learn, ride · To what, where: steppe, wide grasslands, felt tents, gers, horses, three · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Mongols» 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 (Mongols, felt tents, children), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 grasslands | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 grasslands | det |
| 3 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grasslands | amod |
| 4 | grasslands | grassland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 called | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Asia | case |
| 6 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grasslands | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grasslands | punct |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 steppe | det |
| 10 | steppe | steppe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Mongols | det |
| 13 | Mongols | Mongol | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | advcl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 nomads | case |
| 16 | nomads | nomad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lived | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 tents | case |
| 18 | round | round | ADV | _ | 19 felt | advmod |
| 19 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 tents | amod |
| 20 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lived | obl |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 tents | acl |
| 22 | gers | ger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 called | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 herding | punct |
| 24 | herding | herd | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 lived | advcl |
| 25 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 herding | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sheep | punct |
| 27 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 horses | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 goats | cc |
| 29 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 horses | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 learned | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 learned | cc |
| 32 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 learned | nsubj |
| 33 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 ride | mark |
| 35 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 learned | xcomp |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 three | case |
| 37 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 ride | obl |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 four | cc |
| 39 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 three | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | 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 | call | past | the steppe | the wide grasslands of Asia | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent steppe=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the Mongols | felt tents | as nomads | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tent=Location | |||
| 3 | feel | participle | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | call | participle | felt tents not said here | gers | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | herd | gerund | the Mongols not said here | horses and sheep and goats | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 6 | learn | past | children | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | ride | to-infinitive | children not said here | three | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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:023-the-mongols.lesson:0.
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, 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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