--- title: King Hammurabi of Babylon, about 3,750 years ago, had about 280 laws… — Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires · tree and pragmatics description: King Hammurabi of Babylon, about 3,750 years ago, had about 280 laws carved on a tall stone so everyone could see them. Who acts: King Hammurabi, everyone. 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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, everyone), 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:9 # text = King Hammurabi of Babylon, about 3,750 years ago, had about 280 laws carved on a tall stone so everyone could see them. # 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 ×2 1 King king PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Hammurabi Hammurabi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Babylon Babylon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 3,750 3,750 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl:unmarked 9 ago ago ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 280 280 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 carved carve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 so so SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 23 nsubj _ _ 22 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | King Hammurabi of Babylon | 280 laws | | | | ago *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Patient | | 2 | **carve** | participle | | 280 laws *not said here* | | a tall stone | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on stone=Destination | | 3 | **see** | could | everyone | laws *= law* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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. 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