Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs, sentence 8
Egyptians had three seasons: the flood, the growing time and the harvest.
Who acts: Egyptians · What happens: have, grow
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 (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 | Egyptians | Egyptian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 seasons | nummod |
| 4 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 flood | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flood | det |
| 7 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seasons | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 time | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flood | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 harvest | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 harvest | det |
| 14 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flood | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | 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 | have | past | Egyptians | season | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | 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:8.
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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