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title: The Suez Canal was dug largely by Egyptian workers, tens of thousand… — Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts · tree and pragmatics
description: The Suez Canal was dug largely by Egyptian workers, tens of thousands of them forced labourers, and many died from disease and hard conditions. Who acts: Egyptian workers, many. A sentence of the lesson «Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts, sentence 11

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The Suez Canal was dug largely by Egyptian workers, tens of thousands of them forced labourers, and many died from disease and hard conditions.

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**Who acts:** Egyptian workers, many · **What happens:** dig, force, die · **To what, where:** Suez Canal, disease

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts» of the geography 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 (Egyptian workers, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:020-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts.lesson:11
# text = The Suez Canal was dug largely by Egyptian workers, tens of thousands of them forced labourers, and many died from disease and hard conditions.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 020-canals-suez-panama-and-the-shortcuts.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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Suez	Suez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Canal	Canal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:agent	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	labourers	labourer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	acl:relcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nsubj	_	_
21	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | past · passive | Egyptian workers and tens of thousands of thousands | the Suez Canal |  |  |  | largely *property* | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument |
| 2 | **force** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **die** | past | many |  |  | disease and hard conditions |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from disease=Causer |

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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.

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**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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