Mesopotamia: the first cities and writing, sentence 6

Scribes pressed a cut reed into wet clay, making wedge-shaped marks called cuneiform.

Who acts: Scribes, shaped marks · What happens: press, make, call · To what, where: cut reed, wet clay, shaped marks, cuneiform · 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 (Scribes, shaped marks), 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	Scribes	scribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pressed	nsubj
2	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 reed	det
4	cut	cut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reed	amod
5	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pressed	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 clay	case
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clay	amod
8	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pressed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 making	punct
10	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 pressed	advcl
11	wedge	wedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shaped	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 shaped	punct
13	shaped	shaped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 marks	amod
14	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 making	obj
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 marks	acl
16	cuneiform	cuneiform	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pressed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	press	past	Scribes	a cut reed	wet clay	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reed=Theme
2	make	gerund	Scribes not said here	shaped marks		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mark=Product
3	call	participle	shaped marks not said here	cuneiform		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:6.

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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