--- title: The Aztecs, or Mexica, were a wandering people who settled in the Va… — The Aztecs and the Inca · tree and pragmatics description: The Aztecs, or Mexica, were a wandering people who settled in the Valley of Mexico about 700 years ago and in about 200 years built one of the largest empires in the Americas. Who acts: Aztecs, wandering people. 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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 (Aztecs, wandering people), 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:8 # text = The Aztecs, or Mexica, were a wandering people who settled in the Valley of Mexico about 700 years ago and in about 200 years built one of the largest empires 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Aztecs Aztec PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 Mexica Mexica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 wandering wander VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 amod _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 settled settle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Valley Valley PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 700 700 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl:unmarked 21 ago ago ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 27 built build VERB VBD Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 32 amod _ _ 32 empires empire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Americas Americas PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | **wander** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | past | the Aztecs or Mexica | a wandering people | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **settle** | past | a wandering people | | | the Valley of Mexico | | ago *property* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Location | | 4 | **build** | past | a wandering people *not said here* | one of the largest empires in the Americas | | | year | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:019-the-aztecs-and-the-inca.lesson:8`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [The Aztecs and the Inca, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/7/) - next →: [The Aztecs and the Inca, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/)