Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 17

The Rosetta Stone, found in 1799, has the same message in hieroglyphs, another Egyptian script and Greek; scholars could already read the Greek, so they could compare it with the hieroglyphs.

Who acts: Rosetta Stone, scholars · What happens: find, have, read, compare · To what, where: Rosetta Stone, 1799, same message, hieroglyphs, Greek, message

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 (Rosetta Stone, scholars), 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 Stone	det
2	Rosetta	Rosetta	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Stone	compound
3	Stone	Stone	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 has	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Stone	punct
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 Stone	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1799	case
7	1799	1799	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 found	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 has	punct
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 message	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 message	amod
12	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 hieroglyphs	case
14	hieroglyphs	hieroglyph	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 message	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 script	punct
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 script	det
17	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 script	amod
18	script	script	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 message	appos
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Greek	cc
20	Greek	Greek	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 script	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 read	punct
22	scholars	scholar	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 read	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 read	aux
24	already	already	ADV	_	25 read	advmod
25	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 has	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Greek	det
27	Greek	Greek	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 read	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 compare	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	32 compare	advmod
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 compare	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 compare	aux
32	compare	compare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 read	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 compare	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 hieroglyphs	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hieroglyphs	det
36	hieroglyphs	hieroglyph	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 compare	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	participle		the Rosetta Stone not said here	1799		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	the Rosetta Stone	the same message	hieroglyphs		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Patient
3	read	could	scholars	the Greek			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greek=Topic
4	compare	could	scholars = scholar	message		with the hieroglyphs	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with hieroglyph=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:006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.lesson:17.

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 ×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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