Mesopotamia: the first cities and writing, sentence 21
Many peoples tell flood stories, and the rivers of Mesopotamia really did flood badly.
Who acts: Many peoples, rivers · What happens: tell, flood · To what, where: flood stories · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Many peoples, rivers), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 peoples | amod |
| 2 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stories | compound |
| 5 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tell | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flood | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flood | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rivers | det |
| 9 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flood | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Mesopotamia | case |
| 11 | Mesopotamia | Mesopotamia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 rivers | nmod |
| 12 | really | really | ADV | _ | 14 flood | advmod |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 flood | aux |
| 14 | flood | flood | VERB | _ | 3 tell | conj |
| 15 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 flood | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Many peoples | flood stories | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | flood | past · do-support | the rivers of Mesopotamia | badly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:21.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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