Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires, sentence 16
The Assyrian king Ashurbanipal collected a huge library of clay tablets; baked clay does not rot or burn away easily, so many survive, which is how we can still read the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Who acts: Assyrian king, baked clay, many, we · What happens: collect, bake, not rot, burn away, survive, be · To what, where: huge library
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 (Assyrian king, baked clay, many, we), 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 | 3 king | det |
| 2 | Assyrian | assyrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 collected | nsubj |
| 4 | Ashurbanipal | Ashurbanipal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | appos |
| 5 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 library | det |
| 7 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 library | amod |
| 8 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 collected | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tablets | case |
| 10 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tablets | compound |
| 11 | tablets | tablet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 library | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 rot | punct |
| 13 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 clay | amod |
| 14 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rot | nsubj |
| 15 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 rot | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 rot | advmod |
| 17 | rot | rot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 collected | parataxis |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 burn | cc |
| 19 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 rot | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 burn | advmod |
| 21 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 19 burn | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 survive | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 many | advmod |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 survive | nsubj |
| 25 | survive | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 collected | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 read | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 read | obj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 read | cop |
| 29 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 read | advmod |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 read | nsubj |
| 31 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 read | aux |
| 32 | still | still | ADV | _ | 33 read | advmod |
| 33 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 survive | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Epic | det |
| 35 | Epic | epic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 read | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Gilgamesh | case |
| 37 | Gilgamesh | Gilgamesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Epic | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 collected | 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 | collect | past | the Assyrian king | a huge library of clay tablets | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent library=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bake | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | not rot | present · do-support | baked clay | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | burn away | infinitive | baked clay not said here | away, easily property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | survive | present | many | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | can · present | we | still | read 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.
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:16.
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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