--- title: The Maya had a full writing system of glyphs, carved on stone and pa… — The Maya · tree and pragmatics description: The Maya had a full writing system of glyphs, carved on stone and painted in folding books made of bark, and it has mostly been deciphered since the 1970s. Who acts: Maya. A sentence of the lesson «The Maya» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/18-the-maya/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [The Maya](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/18-the-maya/) / 10 # The Maya, sentence 10 The Maya had a full writing system of glyphs, carved on stone and painted in folding books made of bark, and it has mostly been deciphered since the 1970s. **Who acts:** Maya · **What happens:** have, carve, paint, make, decipher · **To what, where:** full writing system, glyphs, stone, folding books, Maya This is a sentence of the lesson «The Maya» 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 (Maya), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:018-the-maya.lesson:10 # text = The Maya had a full writing system of glyphs, carved on stone and painted in folding books made of bark, and it has mostly been deciphered since the 1970s. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 018-the-maya.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Maya Maya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 glyphs glyph NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 carved carve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 painted paint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 folding folding NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 26 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 deciphered decipher VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 29 since since ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 1970s 1970s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 28 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **have** | past | the Maya | a full writing system of glyphs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent system=Patient | | 2 | **carve** | participle | | glyphs *not said here* | | stone | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on stone=Destination | | 3 | **paint** | participle | | | | folding books | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in book=Destination | | 4 | **make** | participle | | folding books *not said here* | | | | of bark | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **decipher** | present · perfect · passive | | Maya | | | since the 1970s | mostly *property* | tree rules | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:018-the-maya.lesson:10`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Maya, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/18-the-maya/9/) - next →: [The Maya, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/18-the-maya/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/18-the-maya/)