Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms, sentence 7

The Indus cities had straight streets in a grid and houses of baked bricks all of the same size.

Who acts: Indus cities · What happens: have, bake · To what, where: straight streets, grid

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 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cities	det
2	Indus	Indus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cities	compound
3	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 streets	amod
6	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 grid	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 grid	det
9	grid	grid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 streets	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 houses	cc
11	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 streets	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 bricks	case
13	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 bricks	amod
14	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 houses	nmod
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 bricks	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 size	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 size	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 size	amod
19	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 all	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 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	the Indus cities	straight streets and houses of baked bricks		a grid			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Patient
2	bake	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:7.

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): 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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