Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 15
Hieroglyphs were Egyptian writing with hundreds of signs; some stood for sounds, like letters, and some for whole words.
Who acts: Hieroglyphs, some · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: Egyptian writing
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 (Hieroglyphs, some), 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 | Hieroglyphs | hieroglyph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 writing | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 writing | cop |
| 3 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 writing | amod |
| 4 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 hundreds | case |
| 6 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 writing | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 signs | case |
| 8 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hundreds | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 writing | parataxis |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 sounds | case |
| 13 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stood | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 letters | punct |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 letters | case |
| 16 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sounds | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 some | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 some | cc |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 stood | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 words | case |
| 21 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 words | amod |
| 22 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stood | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 writing | 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 | is a | past | Hieroglyphs | Egyptian writing | with hundreds of signs | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stand | past | some | for sounds like letters; for whole words | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for sound=Attribute |
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:15.
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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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