--- title: About 4,500 years ago, while the pyramids were being built, great ci… — Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first ki… · tree and pragmatics description: About 4,500 years ago, while the pyramids were being built, great cities stood by the river Indus, in today's Pakistan and northwest India: Harappa and Mohenjo-daro. Who acts: great cities. 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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 (great cities), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:007-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms.lesson:0 # text = About 4,500 years ago, while the pyramids were being built, great cities stood by the river Indus, in today's Pakistan and northwest India: Harappa and Mohenjo-daro. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 007-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms.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 ×3 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 4,500 4,500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl:unmarked 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 while while SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 pyramids pyramid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 10 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Indus indus NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 22 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod:poss 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 Pakistan Pakistan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 northwest northwest NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 28 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 29 Harappa Harappa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 Mohenjo Mohenjo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 33 daro daro X FW Foreign=Yes 29 dep _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 15 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 | **build** | past · passive | | the pyramids | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **stand** | past | great cities | | | Pakistan India | | by the river Indus; ago *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by indus=Location | 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:007-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms.lesson:0`. **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 ×3. **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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