Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires, sentence 18
The Persian Empire was well organised and fairly tolerant for its time, not the monster army shown in the film 300.
What happens: organise, show · To what, where: Persian Empire, monster army, film
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: 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 Empire | det |
| 2 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Empire | compound |
| 3 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 organised | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 organised | aux:pass |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 organised | advmod |
| 6 | organised | organise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tolerant | cc |
| 8 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 9 tolerant | advmod |
| 9 | tolerant | tolerant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 organised | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 time | nmod:poss |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tolerant | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 army | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 army | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 army | det |
| 16 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 army | compound |
| 17 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Empire | appos |
| 18 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 army | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 film | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 film | det |
| 21 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shown | obl |
| 22 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 film | flat |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 organised | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | organise | past · passive | the Persian Empire | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | participle | the monster army not said here | the film | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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.
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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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