Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs, sentence 15

Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh, lived about 2,050 years ago, spoke many languages and tried to keep Egypt free by allying with Roman leaders.

Who acts: Cleopatra VII · What happens: live, speak, try, keep, ally · To what, where: many languages, Egypt · 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 (Cleopatra VII), 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	Cleopatra	Cleopatra	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 VII	compound
2	VII	VII	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lived	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pharaoh	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pharaoh	det
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pharaoh	amod
6	pharaoh	pharaoh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 VII	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 VII	punct
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 2,050	advmod
10	2,050	2,050	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ago	obl:unmarked
12	ago	ago	ADV	_	8 lived	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spoke	punct
14	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lived	conj
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 languages	amod
16	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spoke	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tried	cc
18	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 spoke	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 keep	mark
20	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tried	xcomp
21	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 keep	obj
22	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 keep	xcomp
23	by	by	SCONJ	_	24 allying	mark
24	allying	ally	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 free	advcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 leaders	case
26	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 leaders	amod
27	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 allying	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	live	past	Cleopatra VII		ago property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past	Cleopatra VII not said here	many languages		tree rules
3	try	past	Cleopatra VII not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cleopatra VII not said here	Egypt	free property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egypt=Theme
5	ally	gerund	Cleopatra VII not said here		with Roman leaders	vn conspire-71 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with leader=Co-Agent

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:15.

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. 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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