Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers, sentence 18
Ashoka's lion pillar is today a national emblem of India.
Who acts: lion pillar · What happens: be · To what, where: national emblem
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 (lion pillar), 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 | 4 pillar | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ashoka | case |
| 3 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pillar | compound |
| 4 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 emblem | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 emblem | cop |
| 6 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 emblem | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 emblem | det |
| 8 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 emblem | amod |
| 9 | emblem | emblem | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 India | case |
| 11 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 emblem | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 emblem | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ashoka's lion pillar | a national emblem | today | of India | tree rules |
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.
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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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