Mesopotamia: the first cities and writing, sentence 17
The Bible's story of the Tower of Babel was probably inspired by a real ziggurat in Babylon.
Who acts: real ziggurat · What happens: inspire · To what, where: story
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 (real ziggurat), 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 Bible | det |
| 2 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 story | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Bible | case |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 inspired | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Tower | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tower | det |
| 7 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 story | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Babel | case |
| 9 | Babel | Babel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Tower | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 inspired | aux:pass |
| 11 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 12 inspired | advmod |
| 12 | inspired | inspire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 ziggurat | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ziggurat | det |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ziggurat | amod |
| 16 | ziggurat | ziggurat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 inspired | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Babylon | case |
| 18 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 ziggurat | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 inspired | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inspire | past · passive | a real ziggurat in Babylon | the Bible's story of the Tower of Babel | probably property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
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:17.
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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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