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title: Ashoka, the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, conquered the land of K… — Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers · tree and pragmatics
description: Ashoka, the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, conquered the land of Kalinga in a terrible war in which very many people died. Who acts: Ashoka, many people. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers, sentence 0

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Ashoka, the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, conquered the land of Kalinga in a terrible war in which very many people died.

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**Who acts:** Ashoka, many people · **What happens:** conquer, die · **To what, where:** land, terrible war

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers» 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 (Ashoka, many people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:008-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers.lesson:0
# text = Ashoka, the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, conquered the land of Kalinga in a terrible war in which very many people died.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 008-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers.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	Ashoka	Ashoka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	grandson	grandson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Chandragupta	Chandragupta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	Maurya	Maurya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Kalinga	Kalinga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conquer** | past | Ashoka | the land of Kalinga |  | a terrible war |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient |
| 2 | **die** | past | many people |  |  |  |  | in a terrible war | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in which=Attribute |

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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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**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.

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