Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires, sentence 17
About 2,500 years ago the Persian king Cyrus the Great took Babylon and built the largest empire the world had yet seen.
Who acts: Persian king, world · What happens: take, build, see · To what, where: Babylon, largest empire
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 (Persian king, world), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 2,500 | advmod |
| 2 | 2,500 | 2500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 11 took | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 6 | Persian | Persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 king | amod |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | nsubj |
| 8 | Cyrus | Cyrus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 king | appos |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Great | det |
| 10 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Cyrus | appos |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 built | cc |
| 14 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 empire | det |
| 16 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 empire | amod |
| 17 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 built | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seen | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 seen | aux |
| 21 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 22 seen | advmod |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 empire | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Persian king | Babylon | ago property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument babylon=Destination | |||
| 2 | build | past | the Persian king not said here | the largest empire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset empire=Product | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | the world | the largest empire not said here | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer empire=Stimulus |
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:17.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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