Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs, sentence 9
About 5,100 years ago a king remembered as Narmer or Menes joined Upper Egypt in the south and Lower Egypt in the north into one kingdom.
Who acts: king · What happens: remember, join · To what, where: king, Upper Egypt, south
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), 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 | _ | 12 joined | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 joined | nsubj |
| 7 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 king | acl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 Narmer | case |
| 9 | Narmer | Narmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 remembered | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 Menes | cc |
| 11 | Menes | Menes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Narmer | conj |
| 12 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Upper | Upper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Egypt | compound |
| 14 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 joined | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 south | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 south | det |
| 17 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 joined | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Egypt | cc |
| 19 | Lower | Lower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Egypt | compound |
| 20 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 south | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 north | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 north | det |
| 23 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 joined | obl |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 kingdom | case |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 kingdom | nummod |
| 26 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 joined | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 joined | 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 | remember | participle | a king not said here | as Narmer or Menes | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as narmer=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | join | past | a king | Upper Egypt | the south and Lower Egypt | in the north; into one kingdom; ago property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent egypt=Patient into kingdom=Co-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:9.
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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