Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other, sentence 13

Writing was invented separately in Mesopotamia about 5,200 years ago, in China over 3,000 years ago, and in Mexico and Central America over 2,000 years ago; whether Egypt's writing was separate is debated.

Who acts: writing, Egypt · What happens: invent, be, debate, write · To what, where: Writing, Mesopotamia

This is a sentence of the lesson «Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other» 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 (writing, Egypt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

narrate

voice

narrator

polarity

neg

teacher

kept the draft

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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