Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 5
Bodies were dried with a special salt and wrapped in linen to make mummies, nothing like the walking mummies of films.
What happens: dry, wrap, make · To what, where: Bodies, linen, mummies
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: 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 | Bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dried | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dried | aux:pass |
| 3 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 salt | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 salt | det |
| 6 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 salt | amod |
| 7 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dried | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wrapped | cc |
| 9 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dried | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 linen | case |
| 11 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wrapped | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wrapped | advcl |
| 14 | mummies | mummy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 nothing | punct |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 mummies | appos |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 mummies | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mummies | det |
| 19 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mummies | compound |
| 20 | mummies | mummy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 nothing | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 films | case |
| 22 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 mummies | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dried | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | past · passive | Bodies | with a special salt | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with salt=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | wrap | participle | linen | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in linen=Destination | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | mummies | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mummy=Product |
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:5.
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. 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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