--- title: Babylon grew into a famous city with blue-tiled gates, the Assyrians… — Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires · tree and pragmatics description: Babylon grew into a famous city with blue-tiled gates, the Assyrians ruled from great palaces, and finally the Persians built the largest empire the world had yet seen. Who acts: Babylon, Assyrians, Persians, world. 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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 (Babylon, Assyrians, Persians, world), 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:5 # text = Babylon grew into a famous city with blue-tiled gates, the Assyrians ruled from great palaces, and finally the Persians built the largest empire the world had yet seen. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Babylon Babylon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 compound _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 tiled tile VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Assyrians assyrian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 ruled rule VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 palaces palace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 21 finally finally ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Persians Persian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 27 amod _ _ 27 empire empire NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 yet yet ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 acl:relcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **grow** | past | Babylon | | | | | into a famous city with tiled gates *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into city=Result | | 2 | **tile** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **rule** | past | the Assyrians | | | great palaces | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **build** | past | the Persians | the largest empire | | | | finally *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=Product | | 5 | **see** | past · perfect | the world | the largest empire *not said here* | | | yet | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer empire=Stimulus | 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:5`. **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, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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. 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