--- title: Egyptians believed the body was needed in the afterlife, so they dri… — Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs · tree and pragmatics description: Egyptians believed the body was needed in the afterlife, so they dried it with a special salt, wrapped it in linen and placed it in a decorated coffin. Who acts: Egyptians. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Egyptians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.lesson:11 # text = Egyptians believed the body was needed in the afterlife, so they dried it with a special salt, wrapped it in linen and placed it in a decorated coffin. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.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 1 Egyptians egyptian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 ccomp _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 afterlife afterlife NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 dried dry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 wrapped wrap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 linen linen NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 decorated decorate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 30 coffin coffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **believe** | past | Egyptians | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **need** | past · passive | | the body | | the afterlife | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **dry** | past | Egyptians *= egyptian* | body | | | | with a special salt | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with salt=Instrument | | 4 | **wrap** | past | Egyptians *= egyptian* *not said here* | body | | linen | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in linen=Destination | | 5 | **place** | past | Egyptians *= egyptian* *not said here* | body | | a decorated coffin | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in coffin=Destination | | 6 | **decorate** | participle | | | | | | | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.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. **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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