Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires, sentence 9
King Hammurabi of Babylon, about 3,750 years ago, had about 280 laws carved on a tall stone so everyone could see them.
Who acts: King Hammurabi, everyone · What happens: have, carve, see · To what, where: 280 laws, tall stone, laws
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, everyone), 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 | 11 had | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Babylon | case |
| 4 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Hammurabi | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hammurabi | punct |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 3,750 | advmod |
| 7 | 3,750 | 3,750 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 11 had | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ago | punct |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 280 | advmod |
| 13 | 280 | 280 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 laws | nummod |
| 14 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | obj |
| 15 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 laws | acl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 stone | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stone | det |
| 18 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stone | amod |
| 19 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carved | obl |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 23 see | mark |
| 21 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 23 see | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 carved | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 see | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | King Hammurabi of Babylon | 280 laws | ago property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Patient | |||
| 2 | carve | participle | 280 laws not said here | a tall stone | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on stone=Destination | ||||
| 3 | see | could | everyone | laws = law | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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:9.
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 ×2. 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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