Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires, sentence 3

King Hammurabi of Babylon had about 280 laws carved on a tall stone for everyone to see, though they were harsher on the poor and on slaves than on the rich.

Who acts: King Hammurabi, laws · What happens: have, carve, see, be · To what, where: 280 laws, tall stone, poor

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 (King Hammurabi, laws), 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	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Hammurabi	compound
2	Hammurabi	Hammurabi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Babylon	case
4	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Hammurabi	nmod
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 280	advmod
7	280	280	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 laws	nummod
8	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
9	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 laws	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 stone	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stone	det
12	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stone	amod
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carved	obl
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 see	mark
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 stone	nmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 everyone	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 harsher	punct
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 harsher	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 harsher	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 harsher	cop
22	harsher	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 had	advcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 poor	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 poor	det
25	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 harsher	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 slaves	cc
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 slaves	case
28	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 harsher	conj
29	than	than	SCONJ	_	32 rich	mark
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 rich	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rich	det
32	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 harsher	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	King Hammurabi of Babylon	280 laws			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Patient
2	carve	participle		280 laws not said here	a tall stone everyone		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on stone=Destination
3	see	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	laws = law		the poor	on the rich; harsh 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:3.

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 ×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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