--- title: Egyptians believed that after death your heart was weighed against a… — Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs · tree and pragmatics description: Egyptians believed that after death your heart was weighed against a feather, and a heart not heavy with wrongdoing could pass to a happy afterlife. Who acts: Egyptians, heart. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs» of the history course of Mova's primary school --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/6-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs/13/) [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/) / [Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and h…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/6-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs/) / 13 # Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 13 Egyptians believed that after death your heart was weighed against a feather, and a heart not heavy with wrongdoing could pass to a happy afterlife. **Who acts:** Egyptians, heart · **What happens:** believe, weigh, pass · **To what, where:** heart, happy afterlife · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs» 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 (Egyptians, heart), 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:13 # text = Egyptians believed that after death your heart was weighed against a feather, and a heart not heavy with wrongdoing could pass to a happy afterlife. # 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): no change 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 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 4 after after ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 weighed weigh VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 ccomp _ _ 10 against against ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 wrongdoing wrongdoing NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 afterlife afterlife NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **weigh** | past · passive | | your heart | | | after death | against a feather | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | | 3 | **pass** | could | a heart | | | a happy afterlife | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to afterlife=Initial\_Location | 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:13`. **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): no change. **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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