Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires, sentence 5
Babylon grew into a famous city with blue-tiled gates, the Assyrians ruled from great palaces, and finally the Persians built the largest empire the world had yet seen.
Who acts: Babylon, Assyrians, Persians, world · What happens: grow, tile, rule, build, see · To what, where: famous city, great palaces, 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 (Babylon, Assyrians, Persians, 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 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 5 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 city | amod |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 gates | case |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tiled | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 blue | punct |
| 10 | tiled | tile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 gates | amod |
| 11 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 city | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ruled | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Assyrians | det |
| 14 | Assyrians | assyrian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 ruled | nsubj |
| 15 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grew | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 palaces | case |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 palaces | amod |
| 18 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ruled | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 built | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 built | cc |
| 21 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 24 built | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Persians | det |
| 23 | Persians | Persian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 built | nsubj |
| 24 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grew | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 empire | det |
| 26 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 empire | amod |
| 27 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 built | obj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 seen | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 seen | aux |
| 31 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 32 seen | advmod |
| 32 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 empire | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | 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 | grow | past | Babylon | into a famous city with tiled gates result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into city=Result | ||||
| 2 | tile | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | rule | past | the Assyrians | great palaces | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | build | past | the Persians | the largest empire | finally property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=Product | |||
| 5 | 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:5.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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