--- title: Darius's grandad from Iran says Cyrus the Great let peoples keep the… — From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms,… · tree and pragmatics description: Darius's grandad from Iran says Cyrus the Great let peoples keep their own gods, «bro»; that helped a huge empire stay calm. Who acts: grandad, Cyrus, peoples, that. 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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 (grandad, Cyrus, peoples, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:10 # text = Darius's grandad from Iran says Cyrus the Great let peoples keep their own gods, «bro»; that helped a huge empire stay calm. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.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 Darius Darius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 grandad grandad NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Iran Iran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 Cyrus Cyrus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 9 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 10 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 11 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 vocative _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 empire empire NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 27 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Darius's grandad from Iran | | | | | bro *vocative* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **let** | past | Cyrus | peoples | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | infinitive | peoples *not said here* | peoples's own gods | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme | | 4 | **help** | past | that | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **stay** | infinitive | a huge empire | | | | | calm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:10`. **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. 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