Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 9

Workers cut stone blocks with copper tools, dragged them on sledges over sand wetted to make it slippery, and moved them up ramps.

Who acts: Workers · What happens: cut, drag, wet, make, move up · To what, where: stone blocks, workers, sledges, sand

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 (Workers), 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	Workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blocks	compound
4	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cut	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 tools	case
6	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tools	compound
7	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cut	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dragged	punct
9	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cut	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dragged	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 sledges	case
12	sledges	sledge	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dragged	obl
13	over	over	ADP	_	14 sand	case
14	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dragged	obl
15	wetted	wet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 sand	acl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 make	mark
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wetted	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 make	obj
19	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 make	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 moved	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 moved	cc
22	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cut	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 moved	obj
24	up	up	PART	_	22 moved	compound:prt
25	ramps	ramp	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 moved	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cut	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cut	past	Workers	stone blocks		with copper tools	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent block=Patient with tool=Instrument
2	drag	past	Workers not said here	workers = worker	sledges	over sand	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	wet	participle		sand not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	make	to-infinitive		sand		slippery property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
5	move up	past	Workers not said here	workers = worker			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent they=Theme ramp=Result

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:9.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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