Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms, sentence 3

The Indus people wrote short signs on little stone seals with animals on them, but nobody can read their writing yet, like a locked diary with no key.

Who acts: Indus people, nobody, people · What happens: write, read, lock · To what, where: short signs, little stone 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 wrote	nsubj
4	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 signs	amod
6	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wrote	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 seals	case
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 seals	amod
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seals	compound
10	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 signs	nmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 animals	case
12	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seals	nmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 animals	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 read	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 read	cc
17	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 read	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 read	aux
19	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wrote	conj
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 writing	nmod:poss
21	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 read	obj
22	yet	yet	ADV	_	19 read	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 diary	punct
24	like	like	ADP	_	27 diary	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 diary	det
26	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 diary	amod
27	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 read	obl
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 key	case
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 key	det
30	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 diary	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	the Indus people	short signs	little stone seals with animals on animals			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sign=Theme on seal=Destination
2	read	can	nobody	people's writing		yet	like a locked diary with no key	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent writing=Topic
3	lock	participle						vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	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:3.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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