Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms, sentence 5

Later, kingdoms grew along the Ganges, the Buddha taught about suffering and kindness, and the Maurya family built an empire across most of India.

Who acts: kingdoms, Buddha, Maurya family · What happens: grow, teach, build · To what, where: Ganges, empire, most

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 (kingdoms, Buddha, Maurya family), 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	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 grew	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Later	punct
3	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 taught	conj
5	along	along	ADP	_	7 Ganges	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Ganges	det
7	Ganges	Ganges	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 grew	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 taught	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Buddha	det
10	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 taught	nsubj
11	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 suffering	case
13	suffering	suffering	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taught	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 kindness	cc
15	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 suffering	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 built	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 built	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 family	det
19	Maurya	Maurya	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 family	compound
20	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 built	nsubj
21	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 taught	conj
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 empire	det
23	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 built	obj
24	across	across	ADP	_	25 most	case
25	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 built	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 India	case
27	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 most	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	kingdoms		the Ganges	late property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along ganges=Location
2	teach speech: other	past	the Buddha			about suffering and kindness	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about suffering=Topic
3	build	past	the Maurya family	a empire	most of India		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset empire=Product

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:5.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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