Mesopotamia: the first cities and writing, sentence 0
Mesopotamia means the land between the rivers: the Tigris and the Euphrates, in what is now mostly Iraq.
Who acts: Mesopotamia, Tigris · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: land, Iraq
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mesopotamia: the first cities and writing» 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 (Mesopotamia, Tigris), 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 | Mesopotamia | Mesopotamia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 land | det |
| 4 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obj |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 rivers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rivers | det |
| 7 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 land | nmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tigris | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Tigris | det |
| 10 | Tigris | Tigris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 land | appos |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Euphrates | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Euphrates | det |
| 13 | Euphrates | euphrates | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Tigris | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 what | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Iraq | case |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 Iraq | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Iraq | cop |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 Iraq | advmod |
| 19 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 20 Iraq | advmod |
| 20 | Iraq | Iraq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Tigris | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | 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 | mean | present | Mesopotamia | the land | between the rivers | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | present | the Tigris and the Euphrates | Iraq | now | mostly property | tree rules |
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:003-mesopotamia-first-cities-and-writing.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): 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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