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title: Far to the south, the Inca ruled along the Andes mountains, the larg… — The Aztecs and the Inca · tree and pragmatics
description: Far to the south, the Inca ruled along the Andes mountains, the largest empire in the Americas, joined by 40,000 kilometres of roads and rope bridges. 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 pr
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# The Aztecs and the Inca, sentence 4

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Far to the south, the Inca ruled along the Andes mountains, the largest empire in the Americas, joined by 40,000 kilometres of roads and rope bridges.

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**Who acts:** Inca · **What happens:** rule, join · **To what, where:** largest empire

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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:4
# text = Far to the south, the Inca ruled along the Andes mountains, the largest empire in the Americas, joined by 40,000 kilometres of roads and rope bridges.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Inca	Inca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	along	along	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det
11	Andes	Andes	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Americas	Americas	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	40,000	40000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc
28	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	bridges	bridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 |  |  |  |  | along the Andes mountains; far *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **join** | participle |  | the largest empire in the Americas *not said here* |  |  |  | by 40,000 kilometres of roads and rope bridges | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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:4`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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