What was lost and what was gained: languages, foods, music and knowledge, sentence 10

Fewer than 20 books from before the Spanish conquest survive from Mexico and Central America, because many were burned by Spanish priests or lost.

Who acts: 20 books, Spanish priests · What happens: survive, burn, lose · To what, where: Mexico, many

This is a sentence of the lesson «What was lost and what was gained: languages, foods, music and knowledge» 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 (20 books, Spanish priests), 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	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 20	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 Fewer	fixed
3	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 books	nummod
4	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 survive	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 conquest	case
6	before	before	ADP	_	9 conquest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 conquest	det
8	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 conquest	amod
9	conquest	conquest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 books	nmod
10	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 Mexico	case
12	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 survive	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 America	cc
14	Central	Central	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 America	flat
15	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Mexico	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 burned	punct
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 burned	mark
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 burned	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 burned	aux:pass
20	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 survive	advcl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 priests	case
22	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 priests	amod
23	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 burned	obl
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 lost	cc
25	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 burned	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 survive	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	survive	present	20 books from the Spanish conquest		Mexico and Central America	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burn	past · passive	Spanish priests	many		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	lose	participle	Spanish priests not said here			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:077-what-was-lost-and-what-was-gained.lesson:10.

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): no change. 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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