When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, seen from both sides, sentence 6

Hernán Cortés had a few hundred Spanish soldiers but tens of thousands of Indigenous allies, such as the Tlaxcalans, who hated Aztec rule; smallpox struck the Aztec capital in 1520, and the allies later found themselves under Spanish rule.

Who acts: Hernán, Tlaxcalans, smallpox, allies · What happens: have, hate, strike, find · To what, where: few hundred Spanish soldiers, Aztec rule, Aztec capital, 1520, allies, Spanish rule

This is a sentence of the lesson «When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, seen from both sides» 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 (Hernán, Tlaxcalans, smallpox, allies), 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	Hernán	Hernán	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
2	Cortés	Cortés	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hernán	flat
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 soldiers	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 soldiers	amod
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 soldiers	nummod
7	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 soldiers	amod
8	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 tens	cc
10	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 soldiers	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 thousands	case
12	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tens	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 allies	case
14	Indigenous	Indigenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 allies	amod
15	allies	ally	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 thousands	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 allies	punct
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	20 Tlaxcalans	case
18	as	as	ADP	_	17 such	fixed
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Tlaxcalans	det
20	Tlaxcalans	tlaxcalan	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 allies	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 allies	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 hated	nsubj
23	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Tlaxcalans	acl:relcl
24	Aztec	Aztec	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 rule	compound
25	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hated	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 struck	punct
27	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 struck	nsubj
28	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 capital	det
30	Aztec	Aztec	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 capital	compound
31	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 struck	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 1520	case
33	1520	1520	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 struck	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 found	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 found	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 allies	det
37	allies	ally	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 found	nsubj
38	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 found	advmod
39	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
40	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 found	obj
41	under	under	ADP	_	43 rule	case
42	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 rule	amod
43	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 found	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Hernán	a few hundred Spanish soldiers but tens of thousands of Indigenous allies such the Tlaxcalans			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient
2	hate	past	the Tlaxcalans	Aztec rule			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Stimulus
3	strike	past	smallpox	the Aztec capital	1520		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Patient
4	find	past	the allies	allies = ally	Spanish rule	late property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic

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:076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.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): 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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