Mesopotamia: the first cities and writing, sentence 3

More food meant bigger towns, and cities like Uruk had tens of thousands of people.

Who acts: More food · What happens: mean, have · To what, where: bigger towns, tens

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 (More food), 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	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 food	amod
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meant	nsubj
3	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 towns	amod
5	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 meant	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cities	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cities	cc
8	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 towns	conj
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
10	Uruk	Uruk	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cities	nmod
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 meant	conj
12	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 thousands	case
14	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tens	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 people	case
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 thousands	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 meant	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	More food	bigger towns and cities Uruk					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Topic
2	have	past	More food not said here	tens of thousands of people					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=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:3.

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, R6-punct-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.

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