Mesopotamia: the first cities and writing, sentence 10
Uruk, about 5,000 years ago, had tens of thousands of people, big temples and city walls, and is one of the first real cities in the world.
Who acts: Uruk · What happens: have, be · To what, where: tens, one
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 (Uruk), 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 | Uruk | Uruk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ago | 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 | _ | 8 had | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ago | punct |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 thousands | case |
| 11 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tens | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 thousands | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 temples | punct |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 temples | amod |
| 16 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tens | appos |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 walls | cc |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 walls | compound |
| 19 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 temples | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 one | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 one | cc |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 one | cop |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 had | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 cities | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cities | det |
| 26 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 cities | amod |
| 27 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cities | amod |
| 28 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 one | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 world | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cities | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Uruk | tens of thousands of people | ago property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Uruk not said here | one | of the first real cities in the world | 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:10.
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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