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title: About 700 years ago a wandering people, the Aztecs or Mexica, settle… — The Aztecs and the Inca · tree and pragmatics
description: About 700 years ago a wandering people, the Aztecs or Mexica, settled in the Valley of Mexico. Who acts: wandering people. A sentence of the lesson «The Aztecs and the Inca» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aztecs and the Inca, sentence 0

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About 700 years ago a wandering people, the Aztecs or Mexica, settled in the Valley of Mexico.

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**Who acts:** wandering people · **What happens:** wander, settle · **To what, where:** Valley

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Aztecs and the Inca» 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 (wandering people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:019-the-aztecs-and-the-inca.lesson:0
# text = About 700 years ago a wandering people, the Aztecs or Mexica, settled in the Valley of Mexico.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 019-the-aztecs-and-the-inca.lesson
# annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	700	700	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wandering	wander	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Aztecs	Aztec	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Mexica	Mexica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **settle** | past | a wandering people |  |  | the Valley of Mexico |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Location |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:019-the-aztecs-and-the-inca.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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