Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers, sentence 0
Ashoka, the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, conquered the land of Kalinga in a terrible war in which very many people died.
Who acts: Ashoka, many people · What happens: conquer, die · To what, where: land, terrible war
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers» 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 (Ashoka, many people), 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 | Ashoka | Ashoka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 conquered | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grandson | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 grandson | det |
| 4 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ashoka | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Chandragupta | case |
| 6 | Chandragupta | Chandragupta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grandson | nmod |
| 7 | Maurya | Maurya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Chandragupta | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ashoka | punct |
| 9 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 land | det |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 conquered | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Kalinga | case |
| 13 | Kalinga | Kalinga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 land | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 war | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 war | det |
| 16 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 war | amod |
| 17 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 conquered | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 died | obl |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 many | advmod |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 people | amod |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 died | nsubj |
| 23 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 war | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 conquered | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | past | Ashoka | the land of Kalinga | a terrible war | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient | |||
| 2 | die | past | many people | in a terrible war | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in which=Attribute |
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:008-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers.lesson:0.
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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