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title: In 1519 Hernán Cortés arrived with a few hundred men, and with tens… — The Aztecs and the Inca · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1519 Hernán Cortés arrived with a few hundred men, and with tens of thousands of native allies and smallpox spreading he conquered Tenochtitlan in 1521. Who acts: Hernán. A sentence of the lesson «The Aztecs and the Inca» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# The Aztecs and the Inca, sentence 12

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In 1519 Hernán Cortés arrived with a few hundred men, and with tens of thousands of native allies and smallpox spreading he conquered Tenochtitlan in 1521.

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**Who acts:** Hernán · **What happens:** arrive, conquer · **To what, where:** 1519, Tenochtitlan, 1521

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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 (Hernán), 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:12
# text = In 1519 Hernán Cortés arrived with a few hundred men, and with tens of thousands of native allies and smallpox spreading he conquered Tenochtitlan in 1521.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1519	1519	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	Hernán	Hernán	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Cortés	Cortés	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	allies	ally	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	spreading	spreading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	Tenochtitlan	Tenochtitlan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	1521	1521	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | Hernán |  |  | 1519 |  | with a few hundred men | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **conquer** | past | Hernán | Tenochtitlan |  | 1521 |  | with tens of thousands of native allies and smallpox spreading | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tenochtitlan=Patient with ten=Instrument |

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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:12`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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