Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs, sentence 13
The curse of Tutankhamun is a newspaper legend; most people who opened the tomb lived long lives.
Who acts: curse, most people · What happens: be, open, live, curse · To what, where: newspaper legend, tomb, long lives, Tutankhamun
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 (curse, most people), 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 curse | det |
| 2 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 legend | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Tutankhamun | case |
| 4 | Tutankhamun | Tutankhamun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 curse | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 legend | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 legend | det |
| 7 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 legend | compound |
| 8 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 legend | punct |
| 10 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 opened | nsubj |
| 13 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 people | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tomb | det |
| 15 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 opened | obj |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 legend | parataxis |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lives | amod |
| 18 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lived | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 legend | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the curse of Tutankhamun | a newspaper legend | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | past | most people | the tomb | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tomb=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | past | most people | long lives | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | ||||
| 4 | curse | Tutankhamun | nom curse «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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: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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