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title: Many southern cities were abandoned around 1,100 years ago, probably… — The Maya · tree and pragmatics
description: Many southern cities were abandoned around 1,100 years ago, probably because of droughts, wars and too many people for the land. 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.
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# The Maya, sentence 5

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Many southern cities were abandoned around 1,100 years ago, probably because of droughts, wars and too many people for the land.

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**What happens:** abandon around · **To what, where:** Many southern cities

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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: 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:5
# text = Many southern cities were abandoned around 1,100 years ago, probably because of droughts, wars and too many people for the land.
# 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 ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	around	around	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	1,100	1,100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl:unmarked
9	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
12	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	droughts	drought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	too	too	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **abandon around** | past · passive |  | Many southern cities |  |  |  | because droughts and wars and many people for the land; ago, around, probably *property* | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: subject=Source |

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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): R5-strong ×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/).

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