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title: After the conquest, Nahua writers working with the Spanish friar Ber… — When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and… · tree and pragmatics
description: After the conquest, Nahua writers working with the Spanish friar Bernardino de Sahagún recorded Aztec memories of the conquest in the Florentine Codex. Who acts: Nahua writers. A sentence of the lesson «When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, seen from both sides» of the history cou
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# When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, seen from both sides, sentence 15

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After the conquest, Nahua writers working with the Spanish friar Bernardino de Sahagún recorded Aztec memories of the conquest in the Florentine Codex.

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**Who acts:** Nahua writers · **What happens:** work, record · **To what, where:** Aztec memories

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, seen from both sides» 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 (Nahua writers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.lesson:15
# text = After the conquest, Nahua writers working with the Spanish friar Bernardino de Sahagún recorded Aztec memories of the conquest in the Florentine Codex.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.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): no change
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Nahua	Nahua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
7	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	friar	friar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	Bernardino	Bernardino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
13	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	Sahagún	Sahagún	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
15	recorded	record	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	Aztec	Aztec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Florentine	Florentine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Codex	Codex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | gerund | Nahua writers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the Spanish friar | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with friar=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **record** | past | Nahua writers | Aztec memories of the conquest in the Florentine Codex |  |  | after the conquest |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme |

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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.

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**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:076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.lesson:15`.

**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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