Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs, sentence 4
About 5,100 years ago the southern and northern lands were joined into one kingdom, ruled by a king called the pharaoh, whom Egyptians believed was partly a god.
Who acts: king, Egyptians · What happens: join, rule, call, believe, be · To what, where: southern lands, one kingdom, pharaoh, god · 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 (king, Egyptians), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 5,100 | advmod |
| 2 | 5,100 | 5,100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 11 joined | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lands | det |
| 6 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lands | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 northern | cc |
| 8 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 southern | conj |
| 9 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 joined | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 joined | aux:pass |
| 11 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 kingdom | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 kingdom | nummod |
| 14 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 joined | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ruled | punct |
| 16 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 kingdom | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 king | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ruled | obl:agent |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 king | acl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pharaoh | det |
| 22 | pharaoh | pharaoh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 called | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Egyptians | punct |
| 24 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 god | nsubj |
| 25 | Egyptians | Egyptian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 believed | nsubj |
| 26 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 pharaoh | acl:relcl |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 god | cop |
| 28 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 30 god | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 god | det |
| 30 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 believed | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past · passive | the southern lands | into one kingdom; ago property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient into kingdom=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | rule | participle | one kingdom not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | call | participle | a king not said here | the pharaoh | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pharaoh=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | believe | past | Egyptians | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | a god | partly property | tree rules |
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:4.
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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