Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires, sentence 15
The Assyrians built a strong, feared empire with great palaces at Nineveh decorated with stone pictures of lion hunts.
Who acts: Assyrians · What happens: build, fear, decorate · To what, where: strong feared empire, great palaces
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 (Assyrians), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Assyrians | det |
| 2 | Assyrians | Assyrian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 built | nsubj |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 empire | det |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 empire | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 strong | punct |
| 7 | feared | fear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 empire | amod |
| 8 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 palaces | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 palaces | amod |
| 11 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 built | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 Nineveh | case |
| 13 | Nineveh | Nineveh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 palaces | nmod |
| 14 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 palaces | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 pictures | case |
| 16 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pictures | compound |
| 17 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 decorated | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hunts | case |
| 19 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hunts | compound |
| 20 | hunts | hunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pictures | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | the Assyrians | a strong feared empire | with great palaces at Nineveh | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent empire=Theme with palace=Source | |||
| 2 | fear | participle | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | decorate | participle | great palaces at Nineveh not said here | with stone pictures of lion hunts | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with picture=Theme |
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:15.
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): R8-pos-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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