--- title: About 4,300 years ago Sargon of Akkad conquered the cities of Mesopo… — Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires · tree and pragmatics description: About 4,300 years ago Sargon of Akkad conquered the cities of Mesopotamia and made one of the first empires, many peoples ruled by one king. Who acts: Sargon. 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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 (Sargon), 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:8 # text = About 4,300 years ago Sargon of Akkad conquered the cities of Mesopotamia and made one of the first empires, many peoples ruled by one king. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 4,300 4,300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 5 Sargon Sargon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Akkad Akkad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 conquered conquer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Mesopotamia Mesopotamia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 19 amod _ _ 19 empires empire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj 23 ruled rule VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl 24 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **conquer** | past | Sargon of Akkad | the cities of Mesopotamia | | | | ago *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient | | 2 | **make** | past | Sargon of Akkad *not said here* | one of the first empires | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product | | 3 | **rule** | participle | | many peoples *not said here* | | | | by one king | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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: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 ×1, R7-rel-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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires/7/) - next →: [Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires/)