Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires, sentence 11
Babylon was one of the largest and most famous cities of the ancient world, with mighty walls and the blue-tiled Ishtar Gate.
Who acts: Babylon · What happens: be, tile · To what, where: one
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 (Babylon), 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 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 one | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cities | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cities | det |
| 6 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 cities | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cities | cc |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 famous | advmod |
| 9 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 largest | conj |
| 10 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 13 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 world | amod |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cities | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 walls | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 walls | case |
| 17 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 walls | amod |
| 18 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 world | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Gate | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Gate | det |
| 21 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Gate | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 blue | punct |
| 23 | tiled | tile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 Gate | amod |
| 24 | Ishtar | ishtar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Gate | compound |
| 25 | Gate | gate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 walls | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Babylon | one | of the largest cities of the ancient world and mighty walls and the blue tiled Ishtar Gate | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tile | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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:004-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires.lesson:11.
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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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