Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 18
In 1822 Jean-François Champollion used the Rosetta Stone to read hieroglyphs again.
Who acts: Jean François · What happens: use, read · To what, where: Rosetta Stone, 1822, hieroglyphs
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 (Jean François), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1822 | case |
| 2 | 1822 | 1822 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 used | obl |
| 3 | Jean | Jean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 François | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Jean | punct |
| 5 | François | François | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 used | nsubj |
| 6 | Champollion | Champollion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 François | flat |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Stone | det |
| 9 | Rosetta | Rosetta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Stone | compound |
| 10 | Stone | Stone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 used | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 read | mark |
| 12 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 used | advcl |
| 13 | hieroglyphs | hieroglyph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 read | obj |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 read | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 used | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | Jean François | the Rosetta Stone | 1822 | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient | |||
| 2 | read | to-infinitive | Jean François not said here | hieroglyphs | again | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hieroglyph=Topic |
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:18.
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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