--- title: Evidence near the Giza pyramids, such as workers' villages, bakeries… — Ancient times and famous stories · tree and pragmatics description: Evidence near the Giza pyramids, such as workers' villages, bakeries and their own tombs, suggests they were mostly built by paid and fed Egyptian workers, some doing a duty to the king; historians still discuss the details. Who acts: Evidence, paid Egyptian workers, some, historians. 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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 (Evidence, paid Egyptian workers, some, historians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson:6 # text = Evidence near the Giza pyramids, such as workers' villages, bakeries and their own tombs, suggests they were mostly built by paid and fed Egyptian workers, some doing a duty to the king; historians still discuss the details. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 2 near near ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Giza Giza PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 pyramids pyramid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 9 case _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 ' 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 villages village NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 bakeries bakery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 tombs tomb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 19 suggests suggest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 22 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 ccomp _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 25 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 amod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 28 Egyptian Egyptian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl:agent _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 32 nsubj _ _ 32 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 duty duty NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 historians historian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 40 still still ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 discuss discuss VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 details detail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | Evidence near the Giza pyramids and workers's villages and bakeries and villages's own tombs | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **build** | past · passive | paid Egyptian workers | villages *= village* | | | | mostly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | | 3 | **pay** | participle | | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **feed** | participle | | | | | | | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **do** | gerund | some | a duty | | | | to the king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality | | 6 | **discuss** *speech: other* | infinitive | historians | the details | | | still | | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Topic | 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:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson:6`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Ancient times and famous stories, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories/5/) - next →: [Ancient times and famous stories, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories/)