--- title: The Persian Empire around 500 BCE stretched from Egypt to India, and… — From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms,… · tree and pragmatics description: The Persian Empire around 500 BCE stretched from Egypt to India, and its kings often let peoples keep their religions and local leaders if they paid tribute, a regular payment of money or goods to the king. Who acts: Persian Empire, kings, peoples. 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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 (Persian Empire, kings, peoples), 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:17 # text = The Persian Empire around 500 BCE stretched from Egypt to India, and its kings often let peoples keep their religions and local leaders if they paid tribute, a regular payment of money or goods to the king. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Persian Persian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 around around ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 500 500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 BCE bce NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 stretched stretch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 often often ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 let let VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 18 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 religions religion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 leaders leader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 28 tribute tribute NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 regular regular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 payment payment NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 goods goods NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 34 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:conj 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stretch** | past | the Persian Empire | 500 BCE | India | Egypt | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from egypt=Location | | 2 | **let** | present | food's kings | peoples | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | infinitive | peoples *not said here* | kings's religions and local leaders | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent religion=Theme | | 4 | **pay** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | kings *= king* | tribute | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribute=Asset | | 5 | **pay** | | | money or goods | | | | to the king | nom payment «possession transitive»: of=patient to=obl | 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:17`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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