--- title: About 4,500 years ago great cities such as Harappa and Mohenjo-daro… — Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first ki… · tree and pragmatics description: About 4,500 years ago great cities such as Harappa and Mohenjo-daro stood by the river Indus, in today's Pakistan and northwest India. Who acts: great cities. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Ancient India: the Indus cities and th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms/) / 6 # Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms, sentence 6 About 4,500 years ago great cities such as Harappa and Mohenjo-daro stood by the river Indus, in today's Pakistan and northwest India. **Who acts:** great cities · **What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** river, Pakistan This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms» of the history course of Mova's primary school. 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:6 # text = About 4,500 years ago great cities such as Harappa and Mohenjo-daro stood by the river Indus, in today's Pakistan and northwest India. # 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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1 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=14:obl:unmarked 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 5 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 7 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 9 case _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 Harappa Harappa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 Mohenjo Mohenjo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 13 daro daro X FW Foreign=Yes 11 flat:foreign _ _ 14 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det 17 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:compound 18 Indus Indus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 Pakistan Pakistan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 northwest northwest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | great cities such Harappa and Mohenjo | the river | | today's Pakistan and northwest India | | ago *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pakistan=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. 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