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title: About 500 years ago the Inca ruled a huge empire along the Andes mou… — The Aztecs and the Inca · tree and pragmatics
description: About 500 years ago the Inca ruled a huge empire along the Andes mountains, from today's Ecuador to Chile, the largest empire in the Americas. Who acts: Inca. 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
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# The Aztecs and the Inca, sentence 14

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About 500 years ago the Inca ruled a huge empire along the Andes mountains, from today's Ecuador to Chile, the largest empire in the Americas.

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**Who acts:** Inca · **What happens:** rule · **To what, where:** huge empire, Ecuador

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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 (Inca), 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:14
# text = About 500 years ago the Inca ruled a huge empire along the Andes mountains, from today's Ecuador to Chile, the largest empire in the Americas.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	500	500	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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Inca	Inca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	along	along	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
13	Andes	Andes	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	compound	_	_
14	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	Ecuador	Ecuador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Chile	Chile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Americas	Americas	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **rule** | past | the Inca | a huge empire |  | today's Ecuador to Chile |  | along the Andes mountains; ago *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=Theme |

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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:14`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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