--- title: After the war Ashoka had messages carved on rocks and tall stone pil… — Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers · tree and pragmatics description: After the war Ashoka had messages carved on rocks and tall stone pillars across India, asking people to be kind, respect all religions and treat animals well. Who acts: Ashoka. 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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 (Ashoka), 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:8 # text = After the war Ashoka had messages carved on rocks and tall stone pillars across India, asking people to be kind, respect all religions and treat animals well. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 Ashoka Ashoka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 carved carve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 pillars pillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 14 across across ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 iobj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 21 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 23 respect respect VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 religions religion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 treat treat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 28 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Ashoka | messages | | | after the war | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Patient | | 2 | **carve** | participle | | messages *not said here* | | rocks across India and tall stone pillars | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on rock=Destination | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | people | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | | 4 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **respect** | infinitive | | all religions | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer religion=Stimulus | | 6 | **treat** | infinitive | | | animals | | | well *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient | 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:008-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers.lesson:8`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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