Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires, sentence 8
About 4,300 years ago Sargon of Akkad conquered the cities of Mesopotamia and made one of the first empires, many peoples ruled by one king.
Who acts: Sargon · What happens: conquer, make, rule · To what, where: cities, one, many peoples
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 (Sargon), 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 4,300 | advmod |
| 2 | 4,300 | 4,300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 8 conquered | advmod |
| 5 | Sargon | Sargon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 conquered | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Akkad | case |
| 7 | Akkad | Akkad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sargon | nmod |
| 8 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cities | det |
| 10 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 conquered | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Mesopotamia | case |
| 12 | Mesopotamia | Mesopotamia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cities | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 conquered | conj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 empires | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 empires | det |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 empires | amod |
| 19 | empires | empire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 peoples | punct |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 peoples | amod |
| 22 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 empires | appos |
| 23 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 peoples | acl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 king | case |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 king | nummod |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ruled | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 conquered | 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 | conquer | past | Sargon of Akkad | the cities of Mesopotamia | ago property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | past | Sargon of Akkad not said here | one of the first empires | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product | ||||
| 3 | rule | participle | many peoples not said here | by one king | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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.
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:8.
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, R7-rel-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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