Mesopotamia: the first cities and writing, sentence 20

Gilgamesh includes a great flood in which a man builds a big boat, takes animals on board and sends out birds to find land.

Who acts: Gilgamesh, man · What happens: include, build, take, send out, find · To what, where: great flood, big boat, animals, board, birds, land

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 (Gilgamesh, man), 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	Gilgamesh	Gilgamesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 includes	nsubj
2	includes	include	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flood	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flood	amod
5	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 includes	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 builds	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 builds	nsubj
10	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 flood	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 boat	det
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boat	amod
13	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 builds	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 takes	punct
15	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 builds	conj
16	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 takes	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 board	case
18	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 takes	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sends	cc
20	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 includes	conj
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 sends	compound:prt
22	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sends	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 find	mark
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sends	advcl
25	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 find	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 includes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	include	present	Gilgamesh	a great flood		vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flood=Theme
2	build	present	a man	a big boat	a great flood	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Product
3	take	present	a man not said here	animals	board	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent animal=Theme on board=Destination
4	send out	present	Gilgamesh not said here	birds		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
5	find	to-infinitive	Gilgamesh not said here	land		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic

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:20.

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 ×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.

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