--- title: Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, was built on a lake with causeways,… — The Aztecs and the Inca · tree and pragmatics description: Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, was built on a lake with causeways, canals, floating gardens and a huge market, and it was bigger than most European cities of the time; Mexico City stands on its ruins. Who acts: market, Mexico City. 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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 (market, Mexico City), 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:10 # text = Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, was built on a lake with causeways, canals, floating gardens and a huge market, and it was bigger than most European cities of the time; Mexico City stands on its ruins. # 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 Tenochtitlan Tenochtitlan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Aztec Aztec PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 causeways causeway NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 canals canal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 amod _ _ 18 gardens garden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 market market NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 conj _ _ 28 than than ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 31 amod _ _ 30 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 36 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 ruins ruin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **build** | past · passive | | Tenochtitlan | | a lake with causeways and canals and floating gardens and a huge market | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on lake=Source | | 2 | **float** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | market | | | | | than most European cities of the time; big *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **stand** | present | Mexico City | | | market's ruins | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ruin=Location | | 5 | **ruin** | | market | | | | | | nom ruin «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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. 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