Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs, sentence 0
Egypt is mostly desert, yet one of the greatest civilisations grew there, all thanks to one river, the Nile.
Who acts: Egypt, one · What happens: be, grow · To what, where: thanks
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs» 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 (Egypt, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 desert | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 desert | cop |
| 3 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 4 desert | advmod |
| 4 | desert | desert | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
| 6 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 12 grew | cc |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 civilisations | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 civilisations | det |
| 10 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 civilisations | amod |
| 11 | civilisations | civilisation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 desert | conj |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 grew | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 thanks | det |
| 16 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 river | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 river | nummod |
| 19 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thanks | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Nile | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Nile | det |
| 22 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 river | appos |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 desert | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Egypt | desert, mostly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | one of the greatest civilisations | all thanks to one river | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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, 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:005-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs.lesson:0.
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): R7-rel-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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