Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires, sentence 10

Some of Hammurabi's laws said the punishment should match the harm, an eye for an eye, but the laws were harsher on poor people and slaves than on the rich.

Who acts: Some, punishment, laws · What happens: say, match, be · To what, where: harm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires» 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 (Some, punishment, laws), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 said	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 laws	case
3	Hammurabi	Hammurabi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 laws	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Hammurabi	case
5	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Some	nmod
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 punishment	det
8	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 match	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 match	aux
10	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 harm	det
12	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 match	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eye	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 eye	det
15	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 harm	appos
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 eye	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 eye	det
18	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eye	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 harsher	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 harsher	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 laws	det
22	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 harsher	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 harsher	cop
24	harsher	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 said	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 people	case
26	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 people	amod
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 harsher	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 slaves	cc
29	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 people	conj
30	than	than	ADP	_	33 rich	case
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 rich	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 rich	det
33	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 harsher	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Some			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	match	should	the punishment	the harm		vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Patient
3	is	past	the laws		on poor people and slaves; than the rich; harsh property	tree rules

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.

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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, R7-rel-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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