Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms, sentence 15
Siddhartha Gautama, a prince, left his palace about 2,500 years ago to understand why people suffer, and became known as the Buddha, the awakened one.
Who acts: Siddhartha Gautama, people · What happens: leave, understand, suffer, become, know, awaken · To what, where: palace · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Siddhartha Gautama, 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 | Siddhartha | siddhartha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Gautama | compound |
| 2 | Gautama | gautama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 prince | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Gautama | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gautama | punct |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 palace | nmod:poss |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obj |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 2,500 | advmod |
| 11 | 2,500 | 2500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 left | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 understand | mark |
| 15 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 left | advcl |
| 16 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 suffer | advmod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 suffer | nsubj |
| 18 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 understand | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 became | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 became | cc |
| 21 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | conj |
| 22 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 became | xcomp |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 Buddha | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Buddha | det |
| 25 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 known | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Buddha | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 one | det |
| 28 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 one | amod |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Buddha | appos |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Siddhartha Gautama | Gautama's palace | ago property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | |||
| 2 | understand | to-infinitive | Siddhartha Gautama not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | suffer | present | people | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | become | past | Siddhartha Gautama not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | know | participle | Siddhartha Gautama not said here | as the Buddha | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as buddha=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | awaken | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «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.
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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, 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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