--- title: Many Maya cities in the southern lowlands declined around 800 to 900… — Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty… · tree and pragmatics description: Many Maya cities in the southern lowlands declined around 800 to 900, but millions of Maya people live today and speak around 30 Mayan languages. Who acts: Many Maya cities, millions. 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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 (Many Maya cities, millions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:080-games-vs-history-tech-trees-barbarians-empty-lands-wonders-and-falls.lesson:9 # text = Many Maya cities in the southern lowlands declined around 800 to 900, but millions of Maya people live today and speak around 30 Mayan languages. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 080-games-vs-history-tech-trees-barbarians-empty-lands-wonders-and-falls.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 Maya Maya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nsubj 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 lowlands lowland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 8 declined decline VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 around around ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 800 800 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 900 900 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 Maya Maya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 20 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 23 around around ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 25 Mayan Mayan NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19: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 | **decline** | past | Many Maya cities in the southern lowlands | 800 | | | | to 900 *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient 800=Extent to 900=Result | | 2 | **live** | present | millions of Maya people | | | | today | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | millions of Maya people *not said here* | 30 Mayan languages | | | | | tree rules | 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:080-games-vs-history-tech-trees-barbarians-empty-lands-wonders-and-falls.lesson:9`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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