--- title: Legend says they built their city where they saw an eagle on a cactu… — The Aztecs and the Inca · tree and pragmatics description: Legend says they built their city where they saw an eagle on a cactus, on an island in a lake; that eagle is on Mexico's flag today. Who acts: Legend, people, eagle. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Legend, people, eagle), 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:1 # text = Legend says they built their city where they saw an eagle on a cactus, on an island in a lake; that eagle is on Mexico's flag today. # 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): no change 1 Legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 9 advmod _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 cactus cactus NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 23 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 24 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 flag flag NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 30 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Legend | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **build** | past | people | people's city | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset city=Product | | 3 | **see** | past | people | a eagle | | a cactus | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eagle=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | present | that eagle | | | Mexico's flag | today | | 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](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:1`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Aztecs and the Inca, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/0/) - next →: [The Aztecs and the Inca, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/)