Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers, sentence 10
About 1,600 years ago the Gupta kings ruled northern India in a time of science, art and poetry often called a golden age.
Who acts: Gupta kings, art · What happens: rule, call · To what, where: northern India, golden age · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Gupta kings, art), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 1,600 | advmod |
| 2 | 1,600 | 1,600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 8 ruled | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kings | det |
| 6 | Gupta | Gupta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kings | compound |
| 7 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ruled | nsubj |
| 8 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 India | amod |
| 10 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ruled | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ruled | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 science | case |
| 15 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 time | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 art | punct |
| 17 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 science | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 poetry | cc |
| 19 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 art | conj |
| 20 | often | often | ADV | _ | 21 called | advmod |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 art | acl:relcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 age | det |
| 23 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 age | amod |
| 24 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | the Gupta kings | northern India | time | ago property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent india=Result | ||
| 2 | call | past | art and poetry not said here | a golden age | often property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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:008-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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