--- title: About 3,800 years ago, workers who spoke a language related to Hebre… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: About 3,800 years ago, workers who spoke a language related to Hebrew and Arabic, living in or near Egypt, took Egyptian picture-signs and used each one only for the FIRST sound of its name. Who acts: workers, sign. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (workers, sign), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.lesson:21 # text = About 3,800 years ago, workers who spoke a language related to Hebrew and Arabic, living in or near Egypt, took Egyptian picture-signs and used each one only for the FIRST sound of its name. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 3,800 3,800 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 related related ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Hebrew Hebrew PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 Arabic Arabic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 acl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 near near ADP IN _ 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:case 21 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 Egyptian Egyptian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 25 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 30 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 31 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 only only ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 FIRST first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 36 amod _ _ 36 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | workers | a language | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | gerund | workers *not said here* | | | Egypt | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in egypt=Location | | 3 | **take** | past | workers | Egyptian picture signs | | | | ago *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme | | 4 | **use** | past | workers *not said here* | each one | | | | for the FIRST sound of sign's name | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent one=Theme for sound=Eventuality | | 5 | **name** | | sign | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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