The Mongols, sentence 8

The Mongols used Chinese and Persian engineers to besiege walled cities, and cities that resisted were often destroyed and many people died.

Who acts: Mongols, cities, many people · What happens: use, besiege, wall, resist, destroy, die · To what, where: Chinese engineers, walled cities, cities

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, cities, many 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 Mongols	det
2	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 used	nsubj
3	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 engineers	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Persian	cc
6	Persian	Persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Chinese	conj
7	engineers	engineer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 used	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 besiege	mark
9	besiege	besiege	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 used	advcl
10	walled	wall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 cities	amod
11	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 besiege	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 destroyed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 destroyed	cc
14	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 destroyed	nsubj:pass
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 resisted	nsubj
16	resisted	resist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cities	acl:relcl
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 destroyed	aux:pass
18	often	often	ADV	_	19 destroyed	advmod
19	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 used	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 died	cc
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	amod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 died	nsubj
23	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 destroyed	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 used	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	past	the Mongols	Chinese engineers		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engineer=Patient
2	besiege	to-infinitive	the Mongols not said here	walled cities		tree rules
3	wall	participle				tree rules
4	resist	past	cities			tree rules
5	destroy	past · passive		cities	often property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	die	past	many people			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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: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): no change. 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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