Ancient times and famous stories, sentence 6
Evidence near the Giza pyramids, such as workers' villages, bakeries and their own tombs, suggests they were mostly built by paid and fed Egyptian workers, some doing a duty to the king; historians still discuss the details.
Who acts: Evidence, paid Egyptian workers, some, historians · What happens: suggest, build, pay, feed, do, discuss · To what, where: villages, duty, details · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient times and famous stories» of the myths 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 (Evidence, paid Egyptian workers, some, historians), 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 | Evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 suggests | nsubj |
| 2 | near | near | ADP | _ | 5 pyramids | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pyramids | det |
| 4 | Giza | Giza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pyramids | compound |
| 5 | pyramids | pyramid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Evidence | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 villages | punct |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 9 workers | case |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 such | fixed |
| 9 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 villages | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 workers | case |
| 11 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pyramids | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bakeries | punct |
| 13 | bakeries | bakery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 villages | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tombs | cc |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tombs | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tombs | amod |
| 17 | tombs | tomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pyramids | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Evidence | punct |
| 19 | suggests | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 built | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 built | aux:pass |
| 22 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 23 built | advmod |
| 23 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 suggests | ccomp |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 workers | case |
| 25 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 workers | amod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fed | cc |
| 27 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 paid | conj |
| 28 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 workers | amod |
| 29 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 built | obl:agent |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 doing | punct |
| 31 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 doing | nsubj |
| 32 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 workers | acl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 duty | det |
| 34 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 doing | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 king | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 king | det |
| 37 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 doing | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 discuss | punct |
| 39 | historians | historian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 discuss | nsubj |
| 40 | still | still | ADV | _ | 41 discuss | advmod |
| 41 | discuss | discuss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 suggests | conj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 details | det |
| 43 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 discuss | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 suggests | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | present | Evidence near the Giza pyramids and workers's villages and bakeries and villages's own tombs | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | build | past · passive | paid Egyptian workers | villages = village | mostly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | |||
| 3 | pay | participle | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | feed | participle | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | do | gerund | some | a duty | to the king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | discuss speech: other | infinitive | historians | the details | still | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Topic |
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:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson:6.
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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-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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