--- title: Spanish priests burned many Maya books, thinking them dangerous, and… — The Maya · tree and pragmatics description: Spanish priests burned many Maya books, thinking them dangerous, and only four are known to survive. Who acts: Spanish priests. A sentence of the lesson «The Maya» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/18-the-maya/11/) [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/) / 11 # The Maya, sentence 11 Spanish priests burned many Maya books, thinking them dangerous, and only four are known to survive. **Who acts:** Spanish priests · **What happens:** burn, think, know, survive · **To what, where:** many Maya books, books, four 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 (Spanish priests), 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:11 # text = Spanish priests burned many Maya books, thinking them dangerous, and only four are known to survive. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Spanish Spanish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 burned burn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 Maya Maya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 survive survive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burn** | past | Spanish priests | many Maya books | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent book=Theme | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Spanish priests *not said here* | books *= book* | | | | dangerous *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | | 3 | **know** | present · passive | | four | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **survive** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:11`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/18-the-maya/10/) - next →: [The Maya, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/18-the-maya/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/18-the-maya/)