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title: In 1532 Francisco Pizarro captured the Inca emperor Atahualpa, who f… — The Aztecs and the Inca · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1532 Francisco Pizarro captured the Inca emperor Atahualpa, who filled a room with gold to buy his freedom, but the Spaniards killed him anyway. Who acts: Francisco, Inca emperor, Spaniards. A sentence of the lesson «The Aztecs and the Inca» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its
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# The Aztecs and the Inca, sentence 19

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In 1532 Francisco Pizarro captured the Inca emperor Atahualpa, who filled a room with gold to buy his freedom, but the Spaniards killed him anyway.

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**Who acts:** Francisco, Inca emperor, Spaniards · **What happens:** capture, fill, buy, kill · **To what, where:** Inca emperor, 1532, room, freedom, Francisco

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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 (Francisco, Inca emperor, Spaniards), 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:19
# text = In 1532 Francisco Pizarro captured the Inca emperor Atahualpa, who filled a room with gold to buy his freedom, but the Spaniards killed him anyway.
# 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 ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1532	1532	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	Francisco	Francisco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Pizarro	Pizarro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	captured	capture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Inca	Inca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	Atahualpa	Atahualpa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Spaniards	spaniard	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
25	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **capture** | past | Francisco | the Inca emperor |  | 1532 |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** | past | the Inca emperor | a room |  |  |  | with gold | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent room=Patient with gold=Instrument |
| 3 | **buy** | to-infinitive | the Inca emperor *not said here* | Francisco's freedom |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme |
| 4 | **kill** | past | the Spaniards | Francisco |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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:19`.

**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 ×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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