Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 12
Egyptians also mummified millions of animals, such as cats, birds and crocodiles, often as gifts to the gods.
Who acts: Egyptians · What happens: mummify · To what, where: millions
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 (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 | 3 mummified | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 mummified | advmod |
| 3 | mummified | mummify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mummified | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 animals | case |
| 6 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 millions | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cats | punct |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 10 cats | case |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 such | fixed |
| 10 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 animals | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 birds | punct |
| 12 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cats | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 crocodiles | cc |
| 14 | crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cats | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gifts | punct |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 18 gifts | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 gifts | case |
| 18 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mummified | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 gods | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gods | det |
| 21 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gifts | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mummified | 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 | mummify | past | Egyptians | millions of animals and cats and birds and crocodiles | as gifts to the gods | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent million=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:006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.lesson:12.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, 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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