--- title: About 1,600 years ago the Gupta kings ruled northern India in a time… — Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers · tree and pragmatics description: About 1,600 years ago the Gupta kings ruled northern India in a time of science, art and poetry often called a golden age. Who acts: Gupta kings, art. 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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 (Gupta kings, art), 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:10 # text = About 1,600 years ago the Gupta kings ruled northern India in a time of science, art and poetry often called a golden age. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 1,600 1,600 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Gupta Gupta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 ruled rule VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 art art NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 poetry poetry NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 often often ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj 25 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rule** | past | the Gupta kings | northern India | | | time | ago *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent india=Result | | 2 | **call** | past | art and poetry *not said here* | a golden age | | | | often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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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