Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 0
Egyptians believed life went on after death, and that the body was still needed there.
Who acts: Egyptians, life · What happens: believe, go on, need · To what, where: body · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs» 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 (Egyptians, life), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Egyptians | Egyptian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 believed | nsubj |
| 2 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 believed | ccomp |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 death | case |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 needed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 needed | cc |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 needed | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 body | det |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 needed | aux:pass |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 needed | advmod |
| 15 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | conj |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 needed | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | Egyptians | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go on | past | life | after death | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | need | past · passive | the body | there | still | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
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, 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:006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.lesson:0.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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