Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms, sentence 10

The Indus people used seals with short inscriptions and animal pictures, but nobody has yet worked out their writing.

Who acts: Indus people, nobody, people · What happens: use, work out, write · To what, where: seals, writing

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms» 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 (Indus people, nobody, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
2	Indus	Indus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 people	compound
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 inscriptions	case
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 inscriptions	amod
8	inscriptions	inscription	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pictures	cc
10	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pictures	compound
11	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 inscriptions	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 worked	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 worked	cc
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 worked	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 worked	aux
16	yet	yet	ADV	_	17 worked	advmod
17	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 used	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 worked	compound:prt
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 writing	nmod:poss
20	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 worked	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	the Indus people	seals		with short inscriptions and animal pictures	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Patient
2	work out	present · perfect	nobody	people's writing	yet		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent writing=Topic
3	write		people				nom writing «act transitive»: poss=agent

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:007-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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