Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 10

The Great Sphinx is a huge statue with a lion's body and a pharaoh's head, carved from the rock next to the pyramids; its nose was damaged long before Napoleon's soldiers came.

Who acts: Great Sphinx, soldiers · What happens: be, carve, damage, come · To what, where: huge statue, rock, nose

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs» 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 (Great Sphinx, soldiers), 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	3 Sphinx	det
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Sphinx	amod
3	Sphinx	sphinx	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 statue	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 statue	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 statue	det
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 statue	amod
7	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	12 body	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lion	det
10	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 body	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 lion	case
12	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 statue	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 head	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pharaoh	det
15	pharaoh	pharaoh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 head	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 pharaoh	case
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 body	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 carved	punct
19	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 statue	parataxis
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 rock	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rock	det
22	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carved	obl
23	next	next	ADV	_	19 carved	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 pyramids	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pyramids	det
26	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 next	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 damaged	punct
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 nose	nmod:poss
29	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 damaged	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 damaged	aux:pass
31	damaged	damage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 carved	conj
32	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 damaged	advmod
33	before	before	SCONJ	_	37 came	mark
34	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 soldiers	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 Napoleon	case
36	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 came	nsubj
37	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 damaged	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 statue	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Great Sphinx	a huge statue		with a lion's body and a pharaoh's head	tree rules
2	carve	participle			the rock	next property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	damage	past · passive		Sphinx's nose		long property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	come	past	Napoleon's soldiers				vn escape-51.1-1 «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:006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.lesson:10.

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): R8-pos-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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