--- title: King Hammurabi of Babylon had about 280 laws carved on a tall stone… — Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires · tree and pragmatics description: King Hammurabi of Babylon had about 280 laws carved on a tall stone for everyone to see, though they were harsher on the poor and on slaves than on the rich. Who acts: King Hammurabi, laws. 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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 (King Hammurabi, laws), 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:3 # text = King Hammurabi of Babylon had about 280 laws carved on a tall stone for everyone to see, though they were harsher on the poor and on slaves than on the rich. # 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 ×1 1 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Hammurabi Hammurabi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Babylon Babylon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=AUX:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 280 280 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 carved carve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 for for SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 15 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 13 nmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 though though SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 harsher harsh ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 advcl _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 slaves slave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 29 than than SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **have** | past | King Hammurabi of Babylon | 280 laws | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Patient | | 2 | **carve** | participle | | 280 laws *not said here* | | a tall stone everyone | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on stone=Destination | | 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | past | laws *= law* | | | the poor | | on the rich; harsh *property* | tree rules | 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:004-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires.lesson:3`. **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/). - ← previous: [Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires/2/) - next →: [Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires/)