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title: Later Maya cities in the north, like Chichen Itza, kept going, and a… — The Maya · tree and pragmatics
description: Later Maya cities in the north, like Chichen Itza, kept going, and at the spring and autumn equinox a shadow snake seems to slide down the stairs of its great pyramid. Who acts: Maya cities, shadow snake. A sentence of the lesson «The Maya» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# The Maya, sentence 19

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Later Maya cities in the north, like Chichen Itza, kept going, and at the spring and autumn equinox a shadow snake seems to slide down the stairs of its great pyramid.

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**Who acts:** Maya cities, shadow snake · **What happens:** keep, go, seem, slide down · **To what, where:** stairs

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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 cities, shadow snake), 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:19
# text = Later Maya cities in the north, like Chichen Itza, kept going, and at the spring and autumn equinox a shadow snake seems to slide down the stairs of its great pyramid.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
2	Maya	Maya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Chichen	Chichen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Itza	Itza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
18	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:compound
21	equinox	equinox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	slide	slide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	down	down	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obj
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	pyramid	pyramid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Maya cities in the north like Chichen Itza |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | Maya cities in the north like Chichen Itza *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** | present | a shadow snake |  |  |  | spring |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **slide down** | to-infinitive | a shadow snake *not said here* | the stairs of snake's great pyramid |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:19`.

**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 ×3, 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/).

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