Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs, sentence 10
The pharaoh was the king of Egypt, and Egyptians believed he was partly a god who kept order in the world.
Who acts: pharaoh, Egyptians, god · What happens: be, believe, keep · To what, where: king, god, order, world · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (pharaoh, Egyptians, god), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pharaoh | det |
| 2 | pharaoh | pharaoh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 king | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Egypt | case |
| 7 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 king | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 believed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 believed | cc |
| 10 | Egyptians | Egyptian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 believed | nsubj |
| 11 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 god | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 god | cop |
| 14 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 16 god | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 god | det |
| 16 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 believed | ccomp |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 kept | nsubj |
| 18 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 god | acl:relcl |
| 19 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kept | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kept | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
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 | is a | past | the pharaoh | the king | of Egypt | tree rules | |||
| 2 | believe | past | Egyptians | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | pharaoh | a god | partly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | keep | past | a god | order | the world | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent order=Theme in world=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, 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:10.
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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