Mesopotamia: the first cities and writing, sentence 1
There, about 5,000 years ago, some of the first real cities in the world grew up.
Who acts: some · What happens: grow up
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 (some), 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 | There | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 grew | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grew | punct |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 5,000 | advmod |
| 4 | 5,000 | 5000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 17 grew | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 some | punct |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cities | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cities | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 cities | amod |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cities | amod |
| 13 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 some | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cities | nmod |
| 17 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 grew | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | some | there | ago property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:1.
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. 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/3-mesopotamia-first-cities-and-writing/1/