Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires, sentence 14
Mesopotamian priests watched the stars and the moon and kept records of them for centuries, which helped them make calendars and predict what the sky would do.
Who acts: Mesopotamian priests, centuries, priests, sky · What happens: watch, keep, help, make, predict, do · To what, where: stars, records, priests, calendars
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 (Mesopotamian priests, centuries, priests, sky), 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 | Mesopotamian | mesopotamian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 priests | amod |
| 2 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 watched | nsubj |
| 3 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stars | det |
| 5 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 watched | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 moon | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 moon | det |
| 8 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stars | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kept | cc |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 watched | conj |
| 11 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 kept | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 records | nmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 centuries | case |
| 15 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 kept | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 helped | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 helped | nsubj |
| 18 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 centuries | acl:relcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 helped | obj |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 helped | xcomp |
| 21 | calendars | calendar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 make | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 predict | cc |
| 23 | predict | predict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 make | conj |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 do | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sky | det |
| 26 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 do | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 do | aux |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 predict | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 watched | 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 | watch | past | Mesopotamian priests | the stars and the moon | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | Mesopotamian priests not said here | records of priests | century | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Theme | |||
| 3 | help | past | centuries | priests = priest | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | priests = priest not said here | calendars | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset calendar=Product | ||||
| 5 | predict | infinitive | priests = priest not said here | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | do | would | the sky | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | record | priests = priest | nom record «communication transitive»: of=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:004-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires.lesson:14.
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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