Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty lands, wonders and falls, sentence 9
Many Maya cities in the southern lowlands declined around 800 to 900, but millions of Maya people live today and speak around 30 Mayan languages.
Who acts: Many Maya cities, millions · What happens: decline, live, speak · To what, where: 800, 30 Mayan languages · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty lands, wonders and falls» 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 (Many Maya cities, millions), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cities | amod |
| 2 | Maya | Maya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cities | compound |
| 3 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 declined | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 lowlands | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lowlands | det |
| 6 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lowlands | amod |
| 7 | lowlands | lowland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cities | nmod |
| 8 | declined | decline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | around | around | ADV | _ | 10 800 | advmod |
| 10 | 800 | 800 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 declined | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 900 | case |
| 12 | 900 | 900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 800 | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 live | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 live | cc |
| 15 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 live | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 people | case |
| 17 | Maya | Maya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 people | compound |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 millions | nmod |
| 19 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 declined | conj |
| 20 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 live | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 speak | cc |
| 22 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 live | conj |
| 23 | around | around | ADV | _ | 24 30 | advmod |
| 24 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 languages | nummod |
| 25 | Mayan | Mayan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 languages | compound |
| 26 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 speak | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 declined | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decline | past | Many Maya cities in the southern lowlands | 800 | to 900 result | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient 800=Extent to 900=Result | |||
| 2 | live | present | millions of Maya people | today | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | millions of Maya people not said here | 30 Mayan languages | 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.
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:080-games-vs-history-tech-trees-barbarians-empty-lands-wonders-and-falls.lesson:9.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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