Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms, sentence 8

Many Indus houses had bathrooms and toilets connected to covered drains along the streets, which carried dirty water away from people.

Who acts: Many Indus houses, covered drains · What happens: have, connect, cover, carry · To what, where: bathrooms, dirty water

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 Indus houses, covered drains), 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	3 houses	amod
2	Indus	Indus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 houses	compound
3	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bathrooms	bathroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 toilets	cc
7	toilets	toilet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bathrooms	conj
8	connected	connect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bathrooms	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 drains	case
10	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 drains	amod
11	drains	drain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 connected	obl
12	along	along	ADP	_	14 streets	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 streets	det
14	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 drains	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 carried	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 carried	nsubj
17	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 drains	parataxis
18	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 water	amod
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 carried	obj
20	away	away	ADV	_	17 carried	advmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 people	case
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 away	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Many Indus houses	bathrooms and toilets		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bathroom=Patient
2	connect	participle		bathrooms and toilets not said here	to covered drains along the streets	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to drain=Co-Patient
3	cover	participle				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	carry	past	covered drains along the streets	dirty water	away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

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:8.

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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