Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms, sentence 6
About 4,500 years ago great cities such as Harappa and Mohenjo-daro stood by the river Indus, in today's Pakistan and northwest India.
Who acts: great cities · What happens: stand · To what, where: river, Pakistan
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 (great cities), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 4,500 | advmod |
| 2 | 4,500 | 4,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 14 stood | advmod |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cities | amod |
| 6 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 9 Harappa | case |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 such | fixed |
| 9 | Harappa | Harappa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cities | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Mohenjo | cc |
| 11 | Mohenjo | Mohenjo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Harappa | conj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 daro | punct |
| 13 | daro | daro | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 Mohenjo | flat:foreign |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Indus | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 river | det |
| 17 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 18 | Indus | Indus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 river | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Pakistan | case |
| 21 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Pakistan | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 today | case |
| 23 | Pakistan | Pakistan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 India | cc |
| 25 | northwest | northwest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 India | amod |
| 26 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Pakistan | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | great cities such Harappa and Mohenjo | the river | today's Pakistan and northwest India | ago property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pakistan=Location |
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:6.
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 ×5, R6-punct-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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