Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 13

Egyptians believed that after death your heart was weighed against a feather, and a heart not heavy with wrongdoing could pass to a happy afterlife.

Who acts: Egyptians, heart · What happens: believe, weigh, pass · To what, where: heart, happy afterlife · 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, heart), 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 Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 weighed	mark
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 death	case
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 weighed	obl
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heart	nmod:poss
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 weighed	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 weighed	aux:pass
9	weighed	weigh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 believed	ccomp
10	against	against	ADP	_	12 feather	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 feather	det
12	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 weighed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pass	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pass	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 heart	det
16	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pass	nsubj
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 heavy	advmod
18	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 heart	amod
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 wrongdoing	case
20	wrongdoing	wrongdoing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heavy	obl
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 pass	aux
22	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 believed	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 afterlife	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 afterlife	det
25	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 afterlife	amod
26	afterlife	afterlife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pass	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 believed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	Egyptians					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	weigh	past · passive		your heart		after death	against a feather	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value
3	pass	could	a heart		a happy afterlife			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to afterlife=Initial_Location

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:13.

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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