--- title: Gilgamesh includes a great flood in which a man builds a big boat, t… — Mesopotamia: the first cities and writing · tree and pragmatics description: Gilgamesh includes a great flood in which a man builds a big boat, takes animals on board and sends out birds to find land. Who acts: Gilgamesh, man. A sentence of the lesson «Mesopotamia: the first cities and writing» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/3-mesopotamia-first-cities-and-writing/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Mesopotamia: the first cities and writ…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/3-mesopotamia-first-cities-and-writing/) / 20 # Mesopotamia: the first cities and writing, sentence 20 Gilgamesh includes a great flood in which a man builds a big boat, takes animals on board and sends out birds to find land. **Who acts:** Gilgamesh, man · **What happens:** include, build, take, send out, find · **To what, where:** great flood, big boat, animals, board, birds, land This is a sentence of the lesson «Mesopotamia: the first cities and writing» 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 (Gilgamesh, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:003-mesopotamia-first-cities-and-writing.lesson:20 # text = Gilgamesh includes a great flood in which a man builds a big boat, takes animals on board and sends out birds to find land. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 003-mesopotamia-first-cities-and-writing.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 1 Gilgamesh Gilgamesh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 includes include VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 flood flood NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 obl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 16 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 sends send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 25 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **include** | present | Gilgamesh | a great flood | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flood=Theme | | 2 | **build** | present | a man | a big boat | | a great flood | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Product | | 3 | **take** | present | a man *not said here* | animals | | board | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent animal=Theme on board=Destination | | 4 | **send out** | present | Gilgamesh *not said here* | birds | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | | 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | Gilgamesh *not said here* | land | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic | 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:003-mesopotamia-first-cities-and-writing.lesson:20`. **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. **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: [Mesopotamia: the first cities and writ…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/3-mesopotamia-first-cities-and-writing/19/) - next →: [Mesopotamia: the first cities and writ…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/3-mesopotamia-first-cities-and-writing/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/3-mesopotamia-first-cities-and-writing/)