Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other, sentence 8
People paid in grain, silver weighed on scales and cowrie shells.
Who acts: People · What happens: pay, weigh · To what, where: grain, silver, scales
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 (People), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 paid | nsubj |
| 2 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 grain | case |
| 4 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 paid | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 silver | punct |
| 6 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grain | conj |
| 7 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 silver | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 scales | case |
| 9 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 weighed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shells | cc |
| 11 | cowrie | cowrie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shells | compound |
| 12 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 scales | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | People | grain and silver | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | weigh | participle | silver not said here | scales and cowrie shells | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
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: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): no change. 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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