Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms, sentence 2
Many towns in Europe had nothing like it for thousands of years.
Who acts: Many towns · What happens: have · To what, where: nothing
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 (Many towns), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 towns | amod |
| 2 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Europe | case |
| 4 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 towns | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 had | obj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 nothing | nmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 thousands | case |
| 10 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thousands | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Many towns in Europe | nothing | like size; for thousands of years | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
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:2.
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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