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title: Babylon was one of the largest and most famous cities of the ancient… — Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires · tree and pragmatics
description: Babylon was one of the largest and most famous cities of the ancient world, with mighty walls and the blue-tiled Ishtar Gate. Who acts: Babylon. A sentence of the lesson «Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires, sentence 11

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Babylon was one of the largest and most famous cities of the ancient world, with mighty walls and the blue-tiled Ishtar Gate.

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**Who acts:** Babylon · **What happens:** be, tile · **To what, where:** one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires» 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 (Babylon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:004-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires.lesson:11
# text = Babylon was one of the largest and most famous cities of the ancient world, with mighty walls and the blue-tiled Ishtar Gate.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 004-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires.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	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod
10	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
21	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	tiled	tile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
24	Ishtar	ishtar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
25	Gate	gate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is a** | past | Babylon | one |  |  |  | of the largest cities of the ancient world and mighty walls and the blue tiled Ishtar Gate | tree rules |
| 2 | **tile** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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.

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