Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other, sentence 21

A clay tablet from Ur, about 3,750 years old, holds a letter from a man called Nanni complaining to the trader Ea-nasir about poor copper and rude treatment.

Who acts: clay tablet, letter · What happens: hold, call, complain · To what, where: letter, man, trader Ea nasir · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (clay tablet, letter), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tablet	det
2	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tablet	compound
3	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 holds	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Ur	case
5	Ur	Ur	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tablet	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 old	punct
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 3,750	advmod
8	3,750	3,750	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 old	obl:unmarked
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tablet	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tablet	punct
12	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 letter	det
14	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 holds	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 man	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 letter	nmod
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 man	acl
19	Nanni	Nanni	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 called	xcomp
20	complaining	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 letter	acl
21	to	to	ADP	_	26 nasir	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 nasir	det
23	trader	trader	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 nasir	compound
24	Ea	ea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 nasir	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 nasir	punct
26	nasir	nasir	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 complaining	obl
27	about	about	ADP	_	29 copper	case
28	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 copper	amod
29	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 complaining	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 treatment	cc
31	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 treatment	amod
32	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 copper	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 holds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hold	present	a clay tablet from Ur	a letter		from a man	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
2	call	participle		a man not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	complain speech: other	gerund	a letter not said here		the trader Ea nasir	about poor copper and rude treatment	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to nasir=Recipient about copper=Topic

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:063-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other.lesson:21.

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, 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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