Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers, sentence 8

After the war Ashoka had messages carved on rocks and tall stone pillars across India, asking people to be kind, respect all religions and treat animals well.

Who acts: Ashoka · What happens: have, carve, ask, be, respect, treat · To what, where: messages, rocks, people, religions, animals

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), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 war	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 war	det
3	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl
4	Ashoka	Ashoka	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
7	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 messages	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 rocks	case
9	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 carved	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pillars	cc
11	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pillars	amod
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pillars	compound
13	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rocks	conj
14	across	across	ADP	_	15 India	case
15	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 rocks	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 asking	punct
17	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 carved	conj
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 asking	iobj
19	to	to	PART	_	21 kind	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 kind	cop
21	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 asking	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 respect	punct
23	respect	respect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 asking	conj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 religions	det
25	religions	religion	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 respect	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 treat	cc
27	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 respect	conj
28	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 treat	obj
29	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 treat	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Ashoka	messages			after the war		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Patient
2	carve	participle		messages not said here		rocks across India and tall stone pillars			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on rock=Destination
3	ask speech: ask	gerund			people				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
4	is not said to happen	to-infinitive						kind property	tree rules
5	respect	infinitive		all religions					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer religion=Stimulus
6	treat	infinitive			animals			well property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient

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:8.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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