From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries, sentence 10

Darius's grandad from Iran says Cyrus the Great let peoples keep their own gods, «bro»; that helped a huge empire stay calm.

Who acts: grandad, Cyrus, peoples, that, huge empire · What happens: say, let, keep, help, stay · To what, where: peoples, own gods · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries» 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 (grandad, Cyrus, peoples, that), 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	Darius	Darius	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grandad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Darius	case
3	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Iran	case
5	Iran	Iran	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grandad	nmod
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Cyrus	Cyrus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 let	nsubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Great	det
9	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Cyrus	amod
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
11	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 let	obj
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 gods	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 gods	amod
15	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 keep	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bro	punct
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 bro	punct
18	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	vocative
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 bro	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 helped	punct
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 helped	nsubj
22	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 keep	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 empire	det
24	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 empire	amod
25	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stay	nsubj
26	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 helped	xcomp
27	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stay	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Darius's grandad from Iran		bro vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	past	Cyrus	peoples		tree rules
3	keep	infinitive	peoples not said here	peoples's own gods		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme
4	help	past	that			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	stay	infinitive	a huge empire		calm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:10.

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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